Gunnar Hellekson
Co-Host of Dave & Gunnar Show
Gunnar Hellekson is the Director of Product Management for Red Hat’s Linux, Virtualization, and Atomic container product lines. Before that, he was Chief Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector group. He is a founder of Open Source for America, one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100 for 2010, and was voted one of the FedScoop 50 for industry leadership. He was a founder of the Military Open Source working group, a member of the SIIA Software Division Board, the Board of Directors for the Public Sector Innovation Group, the Open Technology Fund Advisory Council, New America’s California Civic Innovation Project Advisory Council, and the CivicCommons Board of Advisors. He perks up when people talk about commoditization and the industrial mobilization of World War II.
Gunnar Hellekson has hosted 184 Episodes.
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Episode 229: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
December 18th, 2021 | 31 mins 58 secs
1/3, 1/4, 3/9, a&w, bitcoin, bitcoin whitepaper, burgers, candy canes, dune, gilbert gottfried, guitar pedals, hot dogs, imax, jobs to be done, math, netflix, oktoberfest, olfactory bulb, pine gap, ransomware, rhel, rhel 9, smelling, smells, stereo, straight outta compton, trigeminal nerve, twitter
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs!
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Episode 228: This Email Could Have Been an AI Avatar
November 17th, 2021 | 40 mins 59 secs
acoustic hailing and disruption, ahad, air travel, airlines, deepfakes, distortion pedals, duct tape, email, gig economy, harps, ipad, ipad mini, jazz, jazzkeys, k-mart, leaf blowers, licensing, marketing, meetings, mine, navy, non-lethal weapons, ownership, placebo pedal, reclining seats, sales, us navy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel
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Episode 227: Meetings and Punishment
October 4th, 2021 | 40 mins 10 secs
david macaulay, eyes, facebook, fake grocery items, flatland, gather, meetings, metaverse, mini-brains, online town, optic cups, organoids, polytron, print shop, prison, soup-like homogenates, stem cells, turing tumble, video conferencing
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes
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Episode 226: Plowshares into Swords
September 27th, 2021 | 34 mins 4 secs
ai, ai mr. potato head, biosphere 2, face maker ai, flamethrowers, harry potter, hogwarts, hogwarts castle lego, keyboards, law of war, lego, marriott, mars, mcmansions, microsoft natural keyboards, mr. potato head, nasa, norms, nuclear bunkers, pyrotechnic-aspyhxiation-burglar alarm, real estate, sad topographies, spaceship earth, steve bannon
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about appreciating our listeners, gassing bank robbers, wardriving smart meters!
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Episode 225: Criminal Value Chain
August 24th, 2021 | 48 mins 9 secs
apple, backdoors, citizen, csam, eff, electronic frontier foundation, espionage, fake tweet generator, gig economy, icloud, icloud photos, imessage, latin, latin insults, microsoft natural keyboards, mini metro, nightcrawler, the isolator, vigilante, whatsapp, wireless mice
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about backdoor innovation, gig economy innovation, and retro deep work innovation
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Episode 224: Smells Like Sauerkraut
August 12th, 2021 | 41 mins 23 secs
a-ha, advertising, alexa, amazon, android, anom, bo burnham, bob dylan, criminals, don't stop believin', ephemeral messaging, face smacking, fbi, foo fighters, frozen, geopolitics, icon music center, inside, journey, klingon, latin, let it go, lucid dreaming, lucid dreams, nest hub, nirvana, queensryche, ransomware, regional jet restrooms, signal, silent lucidity, smells like teen spirit, sublime, subterranean homesick blues, take on me, what i got, whatsapp, xkcd
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory
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Episode 223: Digital Skinner Box
August 2nd, 2021 | 40 mins 51 secs
ai, apple airpods max, audiophiles, aws, communication, controls, darpa, dogs, doom, doom captcha, infinidash, inspirational art, maker's schedule manager's schedule, mi band, mi band 6, paranoia, predictions, remote work, rpg, sarcasm, sarcasm detector, space shuttle, terms and conditions, today in tabs, unreal engine
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about teaching AI art and sarcasm, teaching humans dark patterns, and teaching all dogs new tricks
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Episode 222: Clever Girl
May 30th, 2021 | 36 mins
ads, advertising, ai, arduino, breathing, bud light seltzer, covid, facebook, instagram, jurassic park, merriam-webster, mr. potato head, new jersey, nft, nirvana, ohio, omega mart, politics, saypal, sensors, shot and a beer, signal, smells like teen spirit, ukuleles, vaccination, vax-a-million, willie nelson, zoom escaper, zoom fatigue
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises!
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Episode 221: Money’s the Answer. What’s the Question?
May 19th, 2021 | 46 mins 5 secs
5g, 988, caller id, cybercorps, digital signatures, fcc, homomorphic encryption, hpe, information warfare, interagency personnel rotation act, public sector, quantum computing, robocalls, sbom, shockey's law, software bill of material, suicide prevention hotline, the tor project
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Eric Burger about secure, insecure, and mostly secure computing, and a whole lot more!
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Episode 220: Is It a Zip File? Is It an MP3? You Decide!
May 10th, 2021 | 27 mins
ai, ai bias, algoe, austin, cyberstaking, faceapp, ftc, gpt-3, homelessness, japan, mova, movacon, mp3, najee harris, pickup lines, png, prop b, proposition b, richmond, steelers, steganography, twitter, whatsapp, zip
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3
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Episode 219: Chimera in a Can
April 27th, 2021 | 28 mins 54 secs
airlines, bitsbox, chef boyardee, clip, cloudplayer, covid eyewear, dgshowdotorg, drones, fisher-price my home office, google play music, locust ears, masks, moth antennae, openai, ppe, robots, smellicopter, the black hole, twitter, typographical attacks, united airlines, youtube music
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee!
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Episode 218: What Would Marlie Do?
April 14th, 2021 | 40 mins 30 secs
101st airborne division, 5g, bagpipes, batman, batman effect, blue check homes, end-to-end encryption, faraday cages, marlie moxenspike, moxie marlinspike, office items, signal, watermarking, whatsapp, wi-fi, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Marlie Moxinspike, Beyoncé, and Adele!
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Episode 217: Blow Up Enemies with the Power of Your Mind
March 23rd, 2021 | 42 mins 44 secs
ai, attention tracking, bci, brain waves, brain-computer interfaces, code, deepfakes, dopplegangers, eeg, generative media, google tasks, gpt-2, immunization, inoculation, kim stanley robinson, masks, mind control, ministry for the future, monkeys, pink trombone, remember the milk, rtm, texas, texas deep freeze, to-do lists, todoist, todoist-shortcuts, tom cruise, ultrasonic, vaccination, vintage photos, vomitoria
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about mind-controlled computing, computer-controlled minds, and AI-controlled doppelgangers!
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Episode 215: Referendum on My Likeness
February 22nd, 2021 | 30 mins 16 secs
ai, apple m1, billion dollar burger, cannibalism, cheese, cheese-filtered cigarettes, chocolate, cigarettes, covid, covid testing, edible phonograph records, food, freak masks, japan, lab-grown meat, maskalike, masks, meal kits, meat, memory, nist, nist standard food, ouroboros, ouroboros steak, ourochef, paint.wtf, that face
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about COVID, masks, and cannibalism
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Episode 214: The Mind of a Medieval Theologian
February 16th, 2021 | 28 mins 21 secs
bci, brain computer interfaces, chickens, creepy gadgets, dinosaur arms, dinosaur arms for chickens, facehuggers, hand foods, holes, hot dogs, lockdown, machine learning, memory, mozilla, privacy, sandwiches, sound beaming, walking hand
This week Dave and Gunnar hear voices, talk to computers, count holes, and qualify sandwiches
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Episode 212: Security Requires Thinking (His Monkey, His Circus)
January 26th, 2021 | 49 mins 59 secs
badge program, cii badge program, circuses, core infrastructure initiative, covid, covid exposure notification apps, foss contributor survey, monkeys, open source, oss, ossf, reproducible builds, solarwinds, the linux foundation, the open source security foundation
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dr. David A. Wheeler about what’s new at the Linux Foundation, a brand-new free course on developing secure software, some survey results, and recent news concerning SolarWinds.