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Episode 494: Ask Noah Show 494

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Show Notes

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.

-- During The Show --

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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