Sebastian Wick

@nprofile…3g4a and I recently presented our vision for Flatpak and Flatpak Next at @nprofile…tdn6.
The "reporting" on it has been abysmal, focusing on some made up bullshit instead of the meat of the talk.
The only exception has been the article on @nprofile…j4s6 about LAS by @nprofile…qf5h. The difference between the peanut gallery spreading misinformation and a journalist actually researching a topic is just night and day.
https://www.heise.de/en/background/Linux-App-Summit-2026-Meeting-of-the-Linux-Desktop-Avant-garde-11316647.html

2026-05-24 23:51:52 UTC

Hey peanut gallery! systemd-appd explained in a few sentences: https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/so-peerpidfd-gets-more-useful/
I will not take questions.

2026-05-13 16:12:51 UTC

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@nprofile…re2d do it! It's like a two hours commute for you

2026-05-01 19:10:19 UTC

GNOME OS on an ePaper panel driven by @nprofile…htpf glider at 75hz over USB C. The cursor feel smoother than on some shitty 60hz LCD displays and scrolling around works surprisingly well. Absolute game changer for working on the balcony.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/116/500/894/026/491/426/original/fbe5c9efd56c2019.mp4

2026-04-23 20:48:45 UTC

Trying to answer a question no sane person ever had to ask: How Hard Is It, To Open a File?
This one is about the great POSIX idea of a filesystem, and why you could not play your games and open chrome for a few days.
https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

2026-04-10 18:02:50 UTC

Now is the time to update Flatpak to 1.16.6 if you're on stable, or 1.17.6 if you're on unstable. All the known regressions caused by the fix for the sandbox escape have been fixed.

2026-03-25 17:58:07 UTC

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@nprofile…re2d @nprofile…p46h @nprofile…yant I mean, literally what sysexts are for... https://gitlab.gnome.org/tchx84/sysext-utils#a-single-step

2026-03-22 14:30:45 UTC

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@nprofile…re2d dunno, maybe just more visible on mastodon this time around? the shit I had to deal with usually came from youtube and discord and was almost invisible here.

2026-03-22 14:25:17 UTC

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@nprofile…re2d it's just the peanut gallery like it has always been

2026-03-21 16:11:21 UTC

Instead of taking any part in the monthly wayland bashing bullshit, you could just read about how electron, one of the last X11 bastions, has adjusted to wayland. Super important work!
https://www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-talk-wayland

2025-11-07 23:03:02 UTC

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@nprofile…4zgr @nprofile…frtj @nprofile…mwy3 we kind of want to have a "portal" for GPU/accelerator access https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/10/contributions/425/. But yeah, once you have access to a device, you have access to a device. I think for making it easy to "turn off AI", it would help to rather have a good AI portal so apps would actually use that, and then we can have an OS switch for turning it off.

2025-06-18 11:04:38 UTC

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@nprofile…g90f Xwayland doesn't have extra privileges, it interacts with the compositors XWM and how well and this works is an implementation detail. You got lucky with your testing. This will get worse as compositors are looking for ways to get rid of the XWM which means no more of this special handling. You will have the option to run a rootful Xwayland when that's not sufficient.
Then there are things like pointer warping which also won't work, or at least not in all the ways it works on X11. I guess you didn't test those?