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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 148: Our Friend Adrian

    This week Dave talks with Adrian Keward about Ansible use in public sector and lessons learned from public sector customers around the globe

    • Welcome Adrian Keward!
    • British Army Talks DevOps at AnsibleFest London 2017
    • Ansible helps the US Army with Hurricane Harvey relief
    • Network Rail
    • Red Hat Government Symposium 2017
    • Red Hat Forum Tokyo
    • Around the world .. but not in 80 Days – Government approaches to Open Source around the world – Part One
    • Around the world .. but not in 80 Days – Government approaches to Open Source around the world – Part Two
    • We Give Thanks

      • Adrian Keward for being our special guest star!
      • Special Guest: Adrian Keward.

        16 min
      • Episode 147: Dadbag

        This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Game Boys in your medical devices, unicode in your domain names, cryptocurrency miners in your browser, and commercial software in your national security systems

        • Just sayin’: 13 'brain belts' where the world's smartest people reside
        • Vogue: 6 Reasons Akron, Ohio, Should Be On Your Radar
        • Pocket
        • Tom Bihn Tristar and Daylight combo
        • Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport
        • 465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability
        • Meanwhile: Game Boy Advance Hiding In a Medical Device
        • Fake domain names with unicode characters: Chrome, Firefox, and Opera users beware: This isn’t the apple.com you want
          • Try this: Go to https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/
            • YMMV depending upon browser (works on Firefox, but not on Chrome)
            • Coinhive: "Monetize Your Business With Your Users' CPU Power"
              • D&G Term of the Week: Cryptojacking
                • Coinhive Is Rapidly Becoming a Favorite Tool Among Malware Devs
                • Chrome Extension Embeds In-Browser Monero Miner That Drains Your CPU
                • Showtime Websites Used to Mine Monero, Unclear If Hack or an Experiment
                • Someone Made an Ad Blocker But for Cryptocurrency Mining
                • Symantec CEO: Get Commercial Software Off National Security Systems
                • Exclusive: Symantec CEO says source code reviews pose unacceptable risk
                • Would You Video Chat With An Airline Customer Service Rep?
                • Cutting Room Floor

                  • Robots, Now Wielding Nunchucks
                  • The Dadbag
                    • See the whole product line
                    • Sony Releases New Earbud Detangling Spray
                    • Quickly Find the Hipster Neighborhoods in Any Major City With This Tool
                    • Emacs client for Slack brings Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment to 2017
                      • See also Emacs client for Rocketchat (HT Anthony Green)
                      • Greek philosopher or ailment?
                      • Memory Chemicals: For more information, please reread
                      • We Give Thanks

                        • Anthony Green
                        • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                        • 41 min
                        • Episode 146: The Mutability of History

                          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming

                          • Same Waze, Bigger Screen: Waze for Android Auto is Here
                          • D&G This Week in Biometrics: Japanese researchers spin up toilet paper gyroscopes for science
                          • HT Jim Wildman: Breaking News
                          • LyreBird: Copy the voice of anyone
                          • HP laptops covertly log user keystrokes, researchers warn
                          • Radio Controlled Pacemakers Are Easily Hacked
                          • Events have reminders before they are scheduled to begin, but should they have reminders before they are scheduled to end?
                            • See also: Back to Work #331
                            • Cutting Room Floor

                              • The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
                              • Twitter number stations
                              • The Other Side Of The Berlin Wall: Life On A Street In 1980s East Germany
                              • $425 Convertible Jorts Are Proof We Live In The End Times For Denim
                              • Today In WTF Fashion: TopShop Sells Clear ‘Jeans’ While Nordstrom Charges $425 For ‘Muddy’ Ones
                              • Leo Tolstoy’s Macaroni and Cheese Recipe (1874)
                              • We Give Thanks

                                • Jim Wildman and the D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                • 40 min
                                • Episode 145: Mark Giveth, Mark Taketh Away

                                  This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about RHEL 7.4 security and storage, and how to kill a feature

                                  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 bolsters security functionality and performance, Linux container features and automation capabilities for complex IT environments
                                    • RHEL 7.4 launched Aug. 1, 2017 (RHEL 7.4 Release Notes for Security here)
                                    • Network Bound Disk Encryption
                                    • USBGuard (See Lucy’s excellent blog post on this)
                                    • Audit enhancements for human readability (ausearch --format text)
                                    • OpenSCAP NIST Certification
                                    • SELinux support with OverlayFS
                                    • System Role for SELinux configuration
                                    • D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Btrfs
                                    • Red Hat Acquires Permabit Assets, Eases Barriers to Cloud Portability with Data Deduplication Technology
                                    • We Give Thanks

                                      • Mark Thacker for being our special guest star!
                                      • Special Guest: Mark Thacker.

                                        40 min
                                      • Episode 144: Mark Thacker: Product Management Zelig

                                        This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about technical product management and getting things done in open source and proprietary organizations

                                        • Gopher
                                        • Sun Microsystems
                                        • Quantum Corporation
                                        • Help Wanted: We’re hiring
                                          • Senior Product Manager, Storage
                                          • Strategic Partner Product Manager, Business
                                          • We Give Thanks

                                            • Mark Thacker for being our special guest star!
                                            • Special Guest: Mark Thacker.

                                              13 min
                                            • Episode 143: Ostensibly Helpful, But Actually Dangerous

                                              This week Dave and Gunnar talk about things that are ostensibly helpful, but actually dangerous: robotic tutors, voice modulators, autocomplete, and the hellscape of Android VPN apps

                                              • Creeper sauce is back!
                                              • Gunnar can’t wait for the delivery of his Tom Bihn Tristar
                                              • Human vs. robot ping pong
                                              • Hushme Lets You Talk On The Phone Privately While Pretending To Be Bane
                                              • Researchers Issue Security Warnings About Several Popular Android VPN Apps
                                              • The browser setting everyone should turn off now
                                              • Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward?
                                              • Network Television Stations Speed Up TV Shows to Fit in More Ads
                                              • Couch to 5K, RunKeeper, and the value of chains
                                              • Cutting Room Floor

                                                • Recreating Asteroids with open source and a laser projector
                                                • We can now 3D print Slinkys
                                                • Robot Solves Sudoku on Paper
                                                • AI Move Poster Generator
                                                • Create Hilarious Fake Inspirational Messages With InspiroBot
                                                • New paint colors invented by neural network
                                                • Metal band names invented by neural network
                                                • Neural networks can name guinea pigs
                                                • Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
                                                • A Virtual Machine, in Google Sheets
                                                • We Give Thanks

                                                  • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                  • 41 min
                                                  • Episode 142: Spring Cleaning

                                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: power with stomach fluids (and blood), networks with light, and communication networks without people

                                                    • AirPods
                                                    • The World of Yesterday by Stephan Zweig (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
                                                    • Gut juice could power the next generation of health gadgets
                                                    • Self-driving potato
                                                    • Morbid Battery Uses Blood Electrolyte
                                                    • Networking by flickering lights gets some commercial traction
                                                    • Malware Lets a Drone Steal Data by Watching a Computer’s Blinking LED
                                                    • Malware Uses Router LEDs to Steal Data From Secure Networks
                                                    • Meanwhile, near Dave’s house: Macedonia police warn about gas company scam
                                                    • D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google reportedly removing SMS texting from Hangouts on May 22
                                                      • Google currently has at least 11 communications apps
                                                      • Related: XKCD on Chat Systems
                                                      • Cutting Room Floor

                                                        • Meet the Scientists Who Are Making Bread with Cockroach Flour
                                                        • ‘Aliens’ Xenomorph Themed Ceramic Tiki Mugs
                                                        • Dayalets Hellish Vitamin Mascots: Nightmares From The 1950s Doctor’s Office
                                                        • We Give Thanks

                                                          • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                          • 37 min
                                                          • Episode 141: Download This Podcast Or We Shoot This CloudPet
                                                            • Two million recordings of families imperiled by cloud-connected toys' crappy MongoDB
                                                            • CloudPets' woes worsen: Webpages can turn kids' stuffed toys into creepy audio bugs
                                                              • Exploit code has been open sourced here
                                                              • Speaking of remote control… Watch: The first pro football team where fans called the plays. Here's what happened.
                                                              • Satan enters roll-your-own ransomware game
                                                              • Ransomware for Dummies: Anyone Can Do It
                                                              • Dave got published 4x
                                                                • How agencies can take a page out of industry's open playbooks
                                                                • How to get up and running with sweet Orange Pi
                                                                • Internet-enable your microcontroller projects for under $6 with ESP8266
                                                                • Book review: Up to no good with 'Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents'
                                                                • Faking TV Remote Control with Paper and a Lighter
                                                                • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                  • KISS is selling air guitar strings!
                                                                  • 45 minutes of Paul Stanley’s stage banter
                                                                  • This Gallery Of Vintage Clowns Proves They’ve Always Been Scary (see all 3 pages!)
                                                                  • 23 min
                                                                  • Episode 140: Hansel and Gretel
                                                                    • Container lab w/Dan Walsh and Bob Kozdemba: A practical introduction to container security
                                                                    • Container infrastructure trends: Optimizing for production workloads
                                                                    • Container standards
                                                                      • Open Container Initiative
                                                                      • OCI Image Format Specification
                                                                      • Containers image
                                                                      • skopeo
                                                                      • Containers storage
                                                                      • runc
                                                                      • buildah - a tool for building OCI images
                                                                      • cri-o
                                                                      • Hansel and Gretel
                                                                      • Special Guest: Dan Walsh.

                                                                        24 min
                                                                      • Episode 139: Travel and Leisure
                                                                        • Here goes Old Man Egts again on fingerprints… China to Start Fingerprinting Foreign Visitors
                                                                        • Taxi Drones Preparing To Take Off In Dubai
                                                                        • Why Japanese people are wrapping themselves up in cloth
                                                                        • Airmule Pays You to Let TSA-Certified Shippers Use Your Luggage Space
                                                                        • The Airport Jacket: Wearable Luggage For The Frequent Flyer
                                                                        • Related? Crypto Countdown Case
                                                                        • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                          • Upgrade Your Vacation Goals With These Vintage-Style Posters for Time Travelers
                                                                          • Artist Put iTunes Terms & Conditions Into Comic Book Form, Giving You Reason To Finally Read Them
                                                                          • 15 min

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