Episode 493
Ask Noah Show 493
May 26th, 2026
53 mins 51 secs
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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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