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This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams.

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00:45 Intro

IT at home

Wrangling home "data center"

Noah's old strategy

Shoe makers kids have no shoes

Snowballing tech

Backups - pull vs push

Making things modular

11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey

TRMNL

Mecha Comet

GPD Micro PC 2

Value of pocket PCs

22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike

UL Ratings

Pay attention to what you buy

Many Shelly devices are UL listed

UL listed Shelly devices are ~20% more expensive

"Harbor Freight" answer

28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities

Discovered and locked down in a few hours

Assume breach, change everything

Has worm like functionality

Bypassed 2FA

Multiple persistence methods

Heavily obfuscated

stepsecurity.io

36:45 Interview Mike McGrath

Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms

RHEL AI vs OpenShift AI

What did Red Hat get wrong and right over the last few years

Is AI a threat to open source?

Does going closed source actually solve anything?

CVEs

Mechanisms for community influence on RHEL

What are RHEL security best practices?

Quantum safe encryption

Install as little as possible

Image mode

Project Hummingbird

RHEL Forever

CentOS Stream and RHEL

What is an upside of CentOS Stream?

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Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

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.

-- During The Show --

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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• Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2021 •
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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