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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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