Simon McVittie

Software engineer at @Collabora, @Debian member, @GNOME contributor

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

Steam Link now available on desktop Linux, which I believe is @valvesoftware's first official #flatpak app release

[Collabora @Collabora]

Steam Link now available on #Linux https://t.co/Fcn9WRp38U #gaming #Steam

[🖖Jochen Mader 🇪🇺 | @[email protected] @codepitbull]

I work in IT, which is the reason our house has:
- mechanical locks
- mechanical windows
- routers using OpenWRT
- no smart home crap
- no Alexa/Google Assistant/...
- no internet connected thermostats

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

@mjg59 See also Ubuntu 18.04 'bionic', which nobody will *ever* mix up with Android libc during its 5 year lifetime... or perhaps the other thing

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

Following on from "Introduction to #Flatpak" yesterday, my second #FOSDEM talk is about @FlatpakApps in Linux distributions. Join me in room K.3.201 at 13:00

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

Continuing the @Collabora track at #FOSDEM, right after Andrew Lee's talk on OBS in @debian, I'll be presenting an introduction to #flatpak. Learn more about @FlatpakApps at 12:30 in K.3.201

[Tamal Ray @DrRayBakes]

Fantastic work by #Newsround. They should just take over the rolling coverage:

[Julian Huppert @julianhuppert]

Yet again, people are using a tragedy to call for less secure online communications. This is bad for all of us https://t.co/7zgOLbIQi6 #fb

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

@xclaesse This is closely related, but I think @desrt has taken some different directions for appservice since then.

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

Plans from the GTK+ hackfest, only tangentially related to GTK+, to make things better for #flatpak and others: https://t.co/qVpfa8fSdP

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

TFW after doing multiple security fix releases before breakfast, you find that the dog has knocked over the kitchen bin :-/

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

OMG. The universe is powered by Debian Linux. Great choice universe. Hah!

[Simon McVittie @simonmcvittie]

New D-Bus 1.10.x stable branch adds #systemd user-sessions, AppArmor integration and more. http://t.co/gmAD7zBr5V @collaboraltd