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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 97: #97: Less than Lethal Manbun

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: smartphone messes, flying messes, policy messes, Uber messes.

    Image courtesy Capitol Hill Seattle.
    • Apple Is Taunting Publishers With Ad-Blocking and Apple News
      • Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android
      • Android fanboys are trolling Apple’s Move to iOS app with 1-star reviews

      • 9 year old with a Muslim name arrested for making bomb. Or clock. Whatever.
        • There’s a guy collecting offers on how to help the kid. (h/t emorisse)

        • Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US

        • 20+ Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware

        • Remember all those app permissions you blindly agreed to?  Android ransomware lures with porno, takes your picture and then ‘fines’ you

        • D&G Quote of the Week: “From a gov­ern­ment side, our re­spons­ib­il­ity is to talk to folks and ex­plain to them: We’re not ma­ni­acs. The FBI is not an ali­en force im­posed on the Amer­ic­an people,” said FBI Dir­ect­or James Comey
          • Coincidence? The X-Files returns on January 24
          • Totally not related: The Expert

          • Back doors, like TSA luggage lock master keys (which are now self 3D printable and on github), don’t work

          • Uber ride data publicly accessible through Google
            • Meanwhile… Uber Gives $5.5M To Make Amends For Stealing Carnegie Mellon’s Self-Driving Car Scientists

            • This week in “Airlines are garbage”: American Airlines flies uncertified plane to Hawaii

            • Weaponized police drones are now legal in North Dakota

            • California wants to enhance your driver’s license experience

            • DoD looking to replicate the successes of 18F/USDS in Force of the Future plan (h/t matt.micene)

            • Silicon Valley is more biased against women than USN (h/t matt.micene)

            • Congressional polarization, visualized. (h/t emorisse)

            • Cutting Room Floor

              • How to Write an Error Message (h/t unwosu)
              • Tiny fedora for your manbun
              • Hipster Barbie Is So Much Better at Instagram Than You
              • Artisanal Firewood
              • Punk stock photography
              • Directions to Schrödinger’s elevators in the Möbius building
              • Man flying 54 propeller super drone
              • 1976 NASA Graphics Standards Manual
              • Interactive Tor map
              • 15 Rules From the Hobo Ethical Code of 1889
              • Gunnar’s new homepage until further notice
              • This AWS in Plain English is the best, esp. Direct Connect.
              • What DevOps needs to learn from USSOCOM (h/t matt.micene)
              • OpenOffice is a disaster
              • We Give Thanks

                • D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                • 35 min
                • Episode 96: #96: DevOpsSec Panel at Defense In Depth

                  This week Dave talks with Josh Bressers, Trevor Quinn, Bob St. Clair, and Dan Walsh about DevOpsSec!

                  • 2015 Defense in Depth
                  • @RedHatGov blog coverage:
                    • Defense in Depth pregame: Defense in Depth Event Will Bring Red Hat Summit’s Security Focus to the Beltway
                    • Defense in Depth panel postgame: DevOps: A Timely Solution to a Timeless Challenge

                    • Dan Walsh refresher on container security

                    •  

                      We Give Thanks

                      • Josh Bressers, Trevor Quinn, Bob St. Clair, and Dan Walsh for being our special guest stars!
                      • Alex Tinsley for choreographing a most excellent Defense in Depth!
                      • 39 min
                      • Episode 95: #95: Run By Horses

                        This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: San Jose’s license-plate opportunity, AT&T’s wifi opportunity, UK government’s Oracle opportunity, and DISA’s email opportunity.

                        512 Megabytes?
                        • Gunnar’s font and dotfile guidance
                        • License plate reader led police to man who killed reporter, cameraman
                        • Forget license plate readers on police cars, how about on garbage trucks?
                        • D&G Security Doghouse: Adobe and AT&T
                          • Adobe Digital Editions 4 lets you install Norton Security Scan by default
                          • Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Vulnerability In Yahoo Ads
                          • Swift on Security has an eloquent piece on the nightmare of general purpose computing.
                          • AT&T Hotspots: Now with Advertising Injection
                            • Meanwhile: Ad Blockers Will Prevent You From Seeing $22B Worth Of Unwanted Ads This Year



                            • UK government reportedly working to end its reliance on Oracle

                            • UK government inks fresh deal with Oracle

                            • D&G Bait of the Week: DISA cracks down on email storage

                            • Widespread Use of Yammer Social Network at VA Ran Afoul of Agency Rules, Watchdog Says

                            • HHS won’t stop using Yammer despite security warning at VA

                              • Lauren and the Fighting Unicorns picked up by…
                                • Crain’s Business Cleveland: A young group of fans
                                • The Plain Dealer: NASA robotics tournament in Brook Park inspires youth, volunteers

                                  • How to make a minority look like a majority with Social Networks
                                    • Julian sez: “epistemic closure”

                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                      • 1982 DC Comics Style Guide
                                      • Stock photos from the 1970s
                                      • Mad Max Ancient Mythology
                                      • A-ha’s “Take On Me” Performed by North Korean Kids with Accordions
                                      • The Chickeneers (via jduncan and jcallaway)
                                      • Oracle doesn’t need your security help, so stop reverse engineering their code already (h/t matt.micene)
                                      • Passion comes from work and experience not the other way around (h/t matt.micene)
                                      • 57 min
                                      • Episode 94: #94: Subject Matter Experts

                                        This week Dave talks with Uzoma Nwosu and Robin Price about expert Subject Matter Experting and expert child raising with technology.

                                        • Robin wants everyone to read The Open Organization and go to Defense in Depth
                                        • Uzoma wants everyone to enjoy Satellite 6.1
                                        • Chess.com
                                        • Cryptography with Bazooka Joe.

                                          Cutting Room Floor

                                          • The Expert
                                          • We Give Thanks

                                            • Uzoma Nwosu and Robin Price for being our special guest stars!
                                            • 46 min
                                            • Episode 93: #93: Air Gap

                                              This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: airlines, air gaps, gaps in Tor security, securing hitchhiking robots in Philly, and filling your calendar with productive meetings.

                                              • PSA: All Major U.S. Airlines Offer Free Cancellations Within 24 Hours, Except One
                                              • Related: Report: Airlines Installing Uncomfortable Bumps In Seatbacks Because It Pleases Them
                                              • Your air gap won’t prevent decryption key theft (h/t emorisse)
                                              • WebRTC as an attack vector
                                              • Crypto activists announce vision for Tor exit relay in every library
                                                • Meanwhile: New attack on Tor can deanonymize hidden services with surprising accuracy

                                                • Google Knows What You Did Last Summer, Now Shows It To You In Google Maps

                                                • Robots vs. The City of Brotherly Love: Hitchhiking Robot Lasts Just Two Weeks in US Because Humans Are Terrible
                                                  • Dave isn’t surprised: Philadelphia Eagles fans booed Santa Claus
                                                  • Fake hitchBOT video
                                                  • Craigslist ad

                                                  • Lauren talks LIDAR in Manipulating data in 3D with LidarViewer

                                                  • Dave gets interviewed in How the open sourcing of government creates opportunity for software engineers

                                                  • Oracle will sue you into spending more money (h/t matt.micene)

                                                  • Container Corner
                                                    • NC: First State on OpenShift (h/t uzoma)
                                                    • Atomic Apps explainer.
                                                    • Container Best Practices Guide

                                                    • Ansible and Red Hat

                                                    • A+ Red Hatting from Sam Knuth

                                                    • Burr Sutter is the Demo King. Kiss the ring.

                                                    • Congrats to Dan Walsh, Matt Micene, Shawn Wells, and others for being Red Hat Summit 2015 top presenters!

                                                    • This is why we can’t have secure things (h/t matt.micene)

                                                    • Phone discipline or antisocial impatience?

                                                    • The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings

                                                    • Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

                                                    • Cutting Room Floor

                                                      • Modular repairs monolithic (h/t emorisse)
                                                      • MetalCaptcha: captcha with heavy metal band logos
                                                      • Let It Go – from Frozen (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli)
                                                      • 1000 people play Foo Fighters’ Learn to Fly
                                                      • Star Trek fan video of William Shatner covering Pulp’s “Common People”
                                                      • Motivational speech waiting to happen: ‘Leaders and lifters’ help ants move massive meals
                                                      • The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: What If The Bard Wrote The Big Lebowski?
                                                      • The Proper Way to Eat Hot Dogs, According to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (part of the American Meat Institute)
                                                      • Everything is awesome with Princess Yellow Feather
                                                      • Beautiful fonts on RHEL7.
                                                      • github all the things (h/t matt.micene)
                                                      • We Give Thanks

                                                        • D&G Show Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                        • 48 min
                                                        • Episode 92: #92: Moose Hunter

                                                          This week, Dave and Gunnar talk with Paul Smith about our CEO’s new book, The Open Organization, in front of a live studio audience!

                                                          Paul, sweaty from moose hunting.
                                                          • Things have changed since episode 5!
                                                            • See also: Brian Mikkelsen on episode #76

                                                            • The Open Organization

                                                            • Paul follows The Open Organization on Twitter

                                                            • Tom Peters: Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders

                                                            • Jim Whitehurst recommends Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams

                                                            • We Give Thanks

                                                              • Paul Smith for being our special guest star!
                                                              • Bob St. Clair for providing us with the live studio audience!
                                                              • Red Hat North American Public Sector for being our live studio audience!
                                                              • 34 min
                                                              • Episode 91: #91: The Truck Factor

                                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Kommisars in the board room, Akron Police Department’s compulsory feeling of safety, more warm fuzzies from OPM, and more Yahoo! news than you ever thought possible.

                                                                • Lauren strikes again: US Air Force lab: robots, open source, and virtual reality
                                                                • D&G Mailbag: Thanks to Red Hat Middleware Solutions Architect David Murphy for finding our episode 89 Easter egg!
                                                                • Soylent Shake: Burger chain adds bugs to the menu…on purpose
                                                                • ‘Private’ biz Xiaomi sets up Communist Party exec committee
                                                                • Police stop Akron drivers to build safe relationships
                                                                • Iowa school district asks principals to wear body cams
                                                                • OPM, ODNI turn to paper forms to keep security clearance process going
                                                                  • Let’s not forget:
                                                                    • Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets
                                                                    • Russian Security Now Using Typewriters to Thwart the NSA



                                                                    • D&G Uber Evil Move of the Week: FTC asked to block Uber from getting location data in background

                                                                    • D&G Ad Experience Optimization of the Week: The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider

                                                                    • Speaking of getting optimized: US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online

                                                                    • D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Yahoo does Spring Cleaning: Shuts down Maps, Pipes & more
                                                                      • No, seriously, they’re really out

                                                                      • D&G This Week in Things We Wish Vendors Would Abandon: Flash
                                                                        • Ironically(?), occupyflash.org uses Flash to see if Flash is installed

                                                                        • Worldwide PC shipments biggest drop in 2 years thanks to mobile

                                                                        • No joke? Commodore Pet smartphone

                                                                        • Top 500 Supercomputer List Reflects Shifting State of Global HPC Trends

                                                                        • D&G Red Hat Summit Replay Video of the Week: Security compliance automation with Red Hat by Matt Micene
                                                                          • See it reenacted live at Defense in Depth!

                                                                          • It’s like Netflix for Red Hat Training: Red Hat Learning Subscription

                                                                          • So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine

                                                                          • The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative
                                                                            • The CII Census Project
                                                                              • White paper by Dr. David A. Wheeler!



                                                                              • D&G Term of the Week: Truck Factor

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                                                                                Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                • PG-13: Ultra Hal AI Chatbot Talks with another Ultra Hal AI Bot
                                                                                • Top Secret: The goofy retro ‘undercover’ fashion guide for East German secret police spies
                                                                                • Baby goats in pajamas
                                                                                • America Used to Give Out Weird Participation Awards for Nuclear Tests
                                                                                • Now you finally know: Why Do Some Guitarists’ Fingers Smell Like Garlic?
                                                                                • 600 years of war casualties visualized
                                                                                • e-NABLE provides open, 3-D printed protheses for children, will make you cry
                                                                                • Disney business plan
                                                                                • Warhammer 40k Mr. Potato Head
                                                                                • Iterating on large projects like Google
                                                                                • Hybrid Cloud is not a Strategy, It’s a Symptom
                                                                                • Open source chess with http://lichess.org (h/t robinpriceii)
                                                                                • Google proves machines dream of more than Electric Sheep (h/t matt.micene)
                                                                                • html5 games made from crack (h/t robinpriceii)
                                                                                • littlebobby encryption (h/t robinpriceii)
                                                                                • condo high rise with drone landing pad (h/t emorisse)
                                                                                •  

                                                                                  We Give Thanks

                                                                                  • Thanks to Red Hat Middleware Solutions Architect David Murphy for finding our episode 89 Easter egg!
                                                                                  • The whole dgshow Slack crew
                                                                                  • 1 hr 2 min
                                                                                  • Episode 90: #90: Cesspool of Unix

                                                                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about containers, coloring books, and bedtime stories.

                                                                                    • Translate me: The Container Coloring Book by Dan Walsh and Máirín Duffy
                                                                                    • Red Hat Summit video: Container security: Do containers actually contain? Should you care?
                                                                                    • Red Hat Summit video: Super privileged containers
                                                                                    • Articles and more
                                                                                      • Are Docker containers really secure?
                                                                                      • Keeping Up with Docker Security

                                                                                      • We Give Thanks

                                                                                        • Dan Walsh for being our special guest star!
                                                                                        • Máirín Duffy for her illustrations.
                                                                                        • 49 min
                                                                                        • Episode 89: #89: Home Alone

                                                                                          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: OMB, Uber, Slack, GitHub, OpenStack, Docker, the slow-motion password Armageddon, and our favorite OpenShift customers.

                                                                                          • D&G This Week in Meeting Hygiene: Steve Jobs vs. Lucasfilm CFO
                                                                                            • Bonus link: Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here’s How He Did it

                                                                                            • Uber is a garbage company, chapter 283

                                                                                            • Optimizing Dave’s ad experience: Amazon Now Selling Ad Space On Shipping Boxes

                                                                                            • Two High School Interns Return to the GVIS for the Summer

                                                                                            • Slack loves the Fighting Unicorns

                                                                                            • Slack for Linux
                                                                                              • Red Hat Software Collections 2.0 Now Available (h/t Robin Price)

                                                                                              • Cisco buys Piston, IBM buys Blue Box

                                                                                              • Docker backlash begins

                                                                                              • Congressman submits PR on FITARA repository (h/t Matt Micene)

                                                                                              • Your most paranoid fantasies about cybersecurity threat sharing with DHS were basically right on

                                                                                              • OPM is a garbage agency

                                                                                              • 90% of credit card readers still use the default password, Gunnar builds cabin in the woods

                                                                                              • If you generated your ssh key on Debian between 2006 and 2008, it’s time to build a new key
                                                                                                • Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality (h/t Robin Price)
                                                                                                • gpg keypair workflow even i can follow (h/t Matt Micene)

                                                                                                • Meanwhile: Password Manager LastPass Got Breached Hard

                                                                                                • LastPass for Apple Watch?

                                                                                                • Apple to require 6-digit passcodes on newer iPhones, iPads under iOS 9

                                                                                                • Not sure how we missed this: Irate Congressman gives cops easy rule: “just follow the damn Constitution”
                                                                                                  • Mark Bohannon, Vice President of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at Red Hat, has more to say about this

                                                                                                  • D&G Public Sector CIO of the Week is Tony Scott: US CIO Orders All .Gov Websites To Require Encrypted Connections
                                                                                                    • Check the compliance dashboard at pulse.cio.gov
                                                                                                    • Guidance from 18F

                                                                                                      • See you at the Red Hat Summit!
                                                                                                        • Gunnar is moderating Red Hat as a Catalyst for Government
                                                                                                        • Dave’s fireside chatting about security w/Jeff Blank of the NSA

                                                                                                          • Data Virtualization Tutorial from Kenny Peeples
                                                                                                          • Red Hat certified engineers get 1000 hours of AWS or Google, free for nuthin’ thanks to Ravello
                                                                                                          • Kolla = Deploying OpenStack on Kubernetes, blowing minds
                                                                                                          • xsos – Support tool for sosreports (h/t Robin Price)
                                                                                                          • Red Hat loves OpenShift
                                                                                                          • OpenStack on OpenShift, FedRAMP’d
                                                                                                          • Latr.fm Saves Individual Podcasts Episodes to a Special Feed
                                                                                                          • Delete your browser history? That’s a felony. (h/t Jim Wildman)
                                                                                                          • This story on Russian trolls is bonkers
                                                                                                          • Microservices will not cure cancer, thank God.
                                                                                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                                            • Heroic citizen’s rooftop sign has been trolling people arriving in Milwaukee for years
                                                                                                            • Wedding drone fail
                                                                                                            • Cantas is a Trello clone, built by some folks at Red Hat.
                                                                                                            • Paul Ford is a national treasure.
                                                                                                            • A map of the Paris Metro in Git branches.
                                                                                                            • Pay for votes, but in a good way.
                                                                                                            • Anyone see this as not proceeding as planned?
                                                                                                            • Interloper!
                                                                                                            • Smart-y Pants! (h/t Matt Micene)
                                                                                                            • 1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public Schools heat and AC
                                                                                                            • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                              • Matt Micene, Robin Price, and Jim Wildman!
                                                                                                              • 54 min
                                                                                                              • Episode 88: #88: The Usual.

                                                                                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Robots, security, hating on Uber. The usual.

                                                                                                                • Gunnar is all excited about Mad Max: Fury Road
                                                                                                                • Robotic Cockroaches Are Perfect Tiny Aircraft Carriers for Robotic Birds
                                                                                                                • Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves Into Nothing
                                                                                                                • Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain High Priority Security Vulnerabilities
                                                                                                                  • Meanwhile, Šimon Lukašík never sleeps: docker-oscap

                                                                                                                  • Google’s new Saved Passwords site and Smart Lock for Passwords are now available

                                                                                                                  • Report: During Canada tax raid, Uber “remotely encrypted corporate data”

                                                                                                                  • Facebook adding PGP support to messages and notifications

                                                                                                                  • Speaking of metadata: Patriot Act §215 expires, for now

                                                                                                                  • Penn State uses Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Satellite to focus on what matters

                                                                                                                  • Oh, and NC.gov runs on OpenShift

                                                                                                                  • Help Gunnar understand why Google Photos isn’t the second coming

                                                                                                                  • How to Get Out of an Unnecessary Meeting

                                                                                                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                                                    • Uzoma call your office: Soviet DJ has the reels of steel.
                                                                                                                    • Watch This Terrifying Cheetah Robot Jump Over Hurdles
                                                                                                                    • GitTorrent is decentralized Git using BitTorrent and Bitcoin
                                                                                                                    • Scientists Make Unclear Breakthrough After Giving Robot Cancer
                                                                                                                    • Norwegian Navy Beard Application
                                                                                                                    • Convert an old rotary phone to a mobile one for some reason using an Arduino
                                                                                                                    • HT Erich Morisse: “Lose Yourself” in sign language will get you super pumped
                                                                                                                    • Learning parallelism can be hilarious and profane
                                                                                                                    • Trash Day vs. Here Comes the Airplane
                                                                                                                    • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                                      • Šimon Lukašík for helping us keep our containers clean
                                                                                                                      • Erich Morisse for the Eminem.
                                                                                                                      • 49 min

                                                                                                                      About Dave & Gunnar Show

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                                                                                                                      David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.