Description

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

52:15 Feedback

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