Tobias Bernard

@tbernard
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Always working on new hills to die on.

he/they • https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard

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Yay, the new Projects folder icon has landed on my system 🎉

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967

There needs to be a law that makes root based attestation, play integrity, and unified attestation - no matter who provides the root certificates, Google/Apple/other vendors - illegal. There is only one use for this technology right now, and it is to prevent people from doing what they want to do with the devices they own, while also making interoperability cryptographically impossible. This is anti-competitive and should simply be illegal.

[BUG] Login no more possible, Android App still works · Issue #967 · robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet

Before you post a new issue - you must first check the following (and check the boxes with an "X" below) [x ] 1.) Can you login using the smartphone app Volkswagen/Volkswagen Connect and interact w...

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Now that I'm not employed I can be honest with y'all.

The Fedora installer sucks. It always did suck, but it still does too.

New signal vulnrubility: in the app, you can read your messages in plaintext!!! Matrix prevents this
The more I use #GNOME on my private computer and need to use macOS Tahoe on my work computer I'm convinced GNOME is the much better UI. Feels like Mac OS X back when it was good. And the GTK4/libadwaita apps are just gorgeous. There's a whole subculture of finely crafted apps going on like back in the good old days. Makes me want to contribute, which macOS hasn't done in a while.
It's not a skill issue, it's an inherent design flaw of package managers like apt or pacman. The fact that a power outage can kill your OS in 2026 is a meme. Flatpak and image-based operating systems are the future.

Resources has been accepted into Incubator! Thanks Nokyan for developing such excellent app 🩷

But we also need your help! We need people to test Nightly builds to ensure the app can be accepted into Core.

You can learn how to do it here: https://welcome.gnome.org/app/Resources/#installing-a-nightly-build

#gnome #linux

GNOME Calendar 51 will be able to recognize Microsoft Teams meetings links in events, surfacing them with a convenient "Join" button (instead of gibberish) like other videoconferencing systems known to us: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1312

Daily-drive the nightly flatpak like all the cool kids and you'll be able to immediately hop onto calls to circle back and synergize with your clients or colleagues who use this… thing 

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #productivity #meetings #Teams #MicrosoftTeams

There's now a recording of my Linux App Summit talk about our work on Reflection, and the broader project of making local-first collaboration easy for GNOME apps.

There are unfortunately some skips in the audio, but it's more or less understandable :)

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/jRTmqrPxtikkW7ozr6erd7

https://youtu.be/MGAuUGp-Z68

Designing Local-First GNOME Apps | Tobias Bernard @ LAS 2026

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Do I know any Typst ultras? Would love to hear opinions about Typesetter from someone who has used it to work on a real document they need, rather than just playing around with some templates :)

https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.trowell.typesetter

#gnome #gtk #typst

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Typst editor for focused writing