#89: Home Alone

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: OMB, Uber, Slack, GitHub, OpenStack, Docker, the slow-motion password Armageddon, and our favorite OpenShift customers.

• D&G This Week in Meeting Hygiene: Steve Jobs vs. Lucasfilm CFO
  • Bonus link: Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here’s How He Did it



• Uber is a garbage company, chapter 283


• Optimizing Dave’s ad experience: Amazon Now Selling Ad Space On Shipping Boxes


• Two High School Interns Return to the GVIS for the Summer


• Slack loves the Fighting Unicorns


• Slack for Linux
  • Red Hat Software Collections 2.0 Now Available (h/t Robin Price)



• Cisco buys Piston, IBM buys Blue Box


• Docker backlash begins


• Congressman submits PR on FITARA repository (h/t Matt Micene)


• Your most paranoid fantasies about cybersecurity threat sharing with DHS were basically right on


• OPM is a garbage agency


• 90% of credit card readers still use the default password, Gunnar builds cabin in the woods


• If you generated your ssh key on Debian between 2006 and 2008, it’s time to build a new key
  • Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality (h/t Robin Price)
  • gpg keypair workflow even i can follow (h/t Matt Micene)



• Meanwhile: Password Manager LastPass Got Breached Hard


• LastPass for Apple Watch?


• Apple to require 6-digit passcodes on newer iPhones, iPads under iOS 9


• Not sure how we missed this: Irate Congressman gives cops easy rule: “just follow the damn Constitution”
  • Mark Bohannon, Vice President of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at Red Hat, has more to say about this



• D&G Public Sector CIO of the Week is Tony Scott: US CIO Orders All .Gov Websites To Require Encrypted Connections
  • Check the compliance dashboard at pulse.cio.gov
  • Guidance from 18F

• See you at the Red Hat Summit!
  • Gunnar is moderating Red Hat as a Catalyst for Government
  • Dave’s fireside chatting about security w/Jeff Blank of the NSA

• Data Virtualization Tutorial from Kenny Peeples
• Red Hat certified engineers get 1000 hours of AWS or Google, free for nuthin’ thanks to Ravello
• Kolla = Deploying OpenStack on Kubernetes, blowing minds
• xsos – Support tool for sosreports (h/t Robin Price)
• Red Hat loves OpenShift
• OpenStack on OpenShift, FedRAMP’d
• Latr.fm Saves Individual Podcasts Episodes to a Special Feed
• Delete your browser history? That’s a felony. (h/t Jim Wildman)
• This story on Russian trolls is bonkers
• Microservices will not cure cancer, thank God.

Cutting Room Floor

• Heroic citizen’s rooftop sign has been trolling people arriving in Milwaukee for years
• Wedding drone fail
• Cantas is a Trello clone, built by some folks at Red Hat.
• Paul Ford is a national treasure.
• A map of the Paris Metro in Git branches.
• Pay for votes, but in a good way.
• Anyone see this as not proceeding as planned?
• Interloper!
• Smart-y Pants! (h/t Matt Micene)
• 1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public Schools heat and AC

We Give Thanks

• Matt Micene, Robin Price, and Jim Wildman!