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

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