Episode 494
Ask Noah Show 494
June 2nd, 2026
1 hr 5 mins 29 secs
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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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