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This week Sathish Balakrishnan from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Ansible as the trusted execution layer for automation. Jef Spaleta joins to give us an update on Fedora! It's a packed episode.

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00:50 ReCaptcha

Going to require Google Services Framework or iOS >16.4

DeGoogled phones will fail

Where we are headed

No one spoke up

FDroid

Keep Android Open

ReClaim the Net

09:20 Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta

Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat

What is Fedora

Governance

Integrating

New Contributors

Jef's path into Linux

Fedora AI Policy

AI assisted workflow

Future of AI and Agentic

Space for enthusiasm

31:24 News Wire

Midori 11.8 - astian.org

Wordpress 7.0 - wordpress.org

Less 702 - greenwoodsoftware.com

Ardour 9.5 - ardour.org

Thunderbird 151 - thunderbird.net

Firefox 151 - firedfox.com

DietPi 10.4 - dietpi.com

Nitrix 6.1 - nxos.org

Tails 7.8 - torproject.org

RHEL 10.2 - redhat.com

Ubuntu Core 26 - canonical.com

GitHub Victim of TeamPCP - wired.com

Megalodon Cyberattack - mashable.com

Bumblebee - marktechpost.com

MoonRay - phoronix.com

32:42 Meta E2E Messages

Texas Attorney General sued Meta

Could "taint" perception of other E2EE

Unlikely companies will give you true privacy

ArsTechnica

36:30 Sathish Balakrishnan

Vice President and General Manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat

Benefits of Ansible

Ansible as Trusted Execution Layer

Balancing understanding

Guide rails for AI

Drag and Drop AI Ansible workflow

Patching is no longer optional

What do you want all new Ansible users to know?

Everything must be automated

52:15 Feedback

Call in!

Email [email protected]

Tag Marlin in the GeekLab

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This week Sachin Mullick, Senior Manager, Product Management, joins the program and we talk about OpenShift Virtualization.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Sad trombone button

Plex Lifetime Pass Price Hike ArsTechnica

What is Plex is

JellyFin

14:00 Thermostats - Marc

Docs Site

There isn't a great solution

There is a market

Older Venstar T7900

Older Honeywell Redlink

Shelly

Build your own

Centralite Pearl Amazon

25:40 Tailscale - Feydr

How do you access your LAN with no exit node?

27:11 News Wire

KDE Plasma 6.6.5 - kde.org

Debian 13.5 - debian.org

SparkyLinux 8.3 - sparkylinux.org

Age Verification Backlash - opensourceforu.com

DOE Open-Source Wind Turbine - energy.gov

Open Source EV - electrek.co

AI & Linux Security Mailing List - theregister.com techradar.com

SSH-Keysign-PWN - tuxcare.com

Fragnesia - wiz.io

Shai-Hulud - ox.security

Mini Shai-Hulud - cyberscoop.com

DirtyDecrypt - thehackernews.com

OpenBSD 7.9 - openbsd.org

28:54 Sachin Mullick Interview

Sachin Mullick OpenShift Product Manager

VMware Broadcom Acquisition

Red Hat & KVM

"Click Ops"

Upstream

Must be willing to learn

"Click Ops" vs Declarative

Biggest Misconceptions

VM investments and migrating to containers

Are we actually modernizing?

"Day 2"

Home Labs

What would need for a home lab?

OpenShift Sandbox

Red Hat Original Series

Interactive Demos

Training and Certification

53:00 Dory

eInk Signs

Won't be bricked if company goes under

ArsTechnica

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Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Live from Summit in Georgia

Interviews

02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie

Certificate's going to 45 Days

Window is likely to decrease

05:40 Follow up on getting into system - Advait

Write in with your recovery techniques

What Noah used to do

LiveCD and "poking"

Steve's HP Elite Book

UltraBooks

Separating work and personal

Choosing a laptop

ThunderBolt Docks changed computer usage

19:30 Dell Server Problems - Frederick

Maybe the drives died

PERC is getting in the way

Step One

Flash IT mode

If PERC fails you can be in big trouble

23:00 Red Hat Summit Interview

Stefanie Chiras Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, AI Innovation Hub

Mechanical Engineering degrees

What led you where you are?

Breaking down walls

Open Accelerator

Roll of Open Source

Government Involvement

Benefits to community

Does code flow back to Open Source?

Open Source governance

37:40 News Wire

KDE Frameworks 6.26 - kde.org

Mesa 26.1 - mesa3d.org

Cangjie - infoq.com

Mercury Modem - hamweekly.com

Parrot 7.2 - parrotsec.org

3D-Printed Stethoscope - adafruit.com

Copy Fail - thehackernews.com

Dirty Frag - thehackernews.com

Emergency Kill Switch - theregister.com

PAN-OS Vulnerability - thehackersnews.com

PamDOORa - thehackernews.com

MoonShot AI - siliconangle.com

Red Hat AI 3.4 - redhat.com

Open AI Foundations - fierce-network.com

40:00 Fun Technology

Playing with LLMs

Fish.audio

Creating audio books

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Special Guest: Stefanie Chiras .

This week we answer questions about remote connecting to Home Assistant, an automated way to backup and restore your GrapheneOS phone. We talk about the 3D printing laws that are coming on the books.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Starting fresh vs fix what you have

Spaceship design

Designs need to distill down

Home Assistant

Noah's setup

12:00 Home Assistant - Kristian

Steve's remote solution

Tailscale exit nodes

Noah's remote solution

AirVPN

Learn wireguard

Effect of VPN

26:00 SeedVault Feedback - Dominik

Money Apps not transferring is a feature

Permissions not transferring is a feature

Really appriciate the feedback

SeedVault

Syncthing

31:00 Tech for vechiles - dashcam and gps tracking - Charlie

Viofo Dash Cam

Traccar

Understand dashcam need

US is legally requiring manufacture uplink

Vehicles are increasingly computerized

OpenPilot

38:00 News Wire

Curl 8.20 - curl.se

Qbittorrent 5.2 - qbittorrent.org

Calibre 9.8 - calibre-ebook.com

Shotcut 26.4 - shotcut.org

KdenLive - kdenlive.org

EasyOS 7.3 - puppylinux.com

4MLinux 51.1 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com

Extix 26.5 - extonlinux.wordpress.com

EndeavourOS - endeavouros.com

GRML 2026.04 - grml.org

Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com

AerynOS 2026.05 - phoronix.com

PS5 Mod Installs Steam - 80.lv

Copy Fail - copy.fail

Ubuntu Integrated AI - techpowerup.com

Meta Abandons Llama - thenewstack.io

Cisco Tool - cisco.com

DOS 1.0 - zdnet.com microsoft.com

40:00 Steve's tip

Doing work at home

Drive nearing full alert

QDirStat

44:00 3D Printer Restrictions

New York proposed law

Cryptographically signing prints

Requiring cloud connection

Stopping tinkerers from tinkering

80% of people want an easy button

Effect on the market

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This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache.

-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

Gratitude

Curiosity

02:30 Cache Drives - David

Terminology and discovery

ZIL (ZFS Intent Log)

Synchronous vs Asynchronous

SLOG

Mirror drives

ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache)

Stored in RAM

L2ARC

Spill over from ARC

Work load dependant

Please join live!

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12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh

Home Assistant SFTP Storage

Dumping to NFS share

*

0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user

Nextcloud Docs

17:28 Home Automation - Tony

Home automations are personal

Lutron Training

Less is more

Bedroom automation

Eject handles/over-rides

Orbit Panels

31:00 SIP Server - Twobit

FS PBX

freePBX

34:17 News Wire

Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org

Midori 11.7 - github.com

Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org

QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org

LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org

Firefox 150 - firfox.com

Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net

Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com

Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org

Tails 7.7 - tails.net

VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com

Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com

GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com

DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com

Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com

Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com

35:50 Discussion Segment

Cursor - AI first IDE

Opus - AI model

Agents

Cursor "modes"

Agent

Planning mode

Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you

The Register Cursor

Steve's AI automation mishap

AI can be amusing

Mythos

The Register Mythos

Metasploit

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