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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