Here's the third published video of my FOSDEM talks, about the Varlink IPC system:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub2147/NFNKEK-varlink-ipc-system-keynote.av1.webm

This was the last one of the three. Enjoy!

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@pid_eins Problems with D-Bus 3.5:

  • Polkit is only for privileged services => trying to sandbox a user service (e.g. ProtectSystem=strict, ProtectHome=read-only) is often useless

This is why flatpak has to use the dbus-proxy. Proxy that can be avoided using cgroup extended attributes