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 197 Episodes.
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Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible
March 28th, 2023 | 28 mins 19 secs
ai security cameras, backflips, bagpipes, cardboard boxes, day drinking, edible ndas, fake name generator, field sobriety testing, ice ice matrix, lynyrd skynyrd, marine corps, mastodon, ndas, perplexity ai, the matrix, time blocking, todoist, wilford brimley
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks
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Episode 243: No Bamboozle
February 12th, 2023 | 38 mins 54 secs
activitypub, chatgpt, delorean ipsum, exercise machines, friendica, gl.inet, hipster ipsum, lorem ipsum, mastodon, meetings, moa party, movetodon, no bamboozle, openwrt, peertube, pixelfed, rss, spotify, todoist, twitter, white noise
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)!
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Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats
December 15th, 2022 | 34 mins 10 secs
8.5x11, a4, ai, debate, encryption, ice, iso 128, iso 216, john le carré, mac, modifier keys, nypd, obs, open broadcast studio, outlanders, paper, phishing, qr codes, radios, rectangle, slavoj žižek, tumblr, twitter, university of northern new jersey, unnj, verified stickers, werner herzog
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216!
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Episode 241: Apple-Inspired Feedbag
November 18th, 2022 | 25 mins 51 secs
ai, apple, candy, cargo pants, cargo shorts, cargo swim briefs, clip, dall-e2, drums, free drum, halloween candy, image generation, karate, keyboards, kinesis, kinesis advantage360, kmart, kmart music, last supper, leonardo da vinci, mechanical keyboards, meetings, metaverse, microphones, noise cancellation, screaming, tabasco, virtual keyboards, virtual reality, virtual reality kmart
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce!
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Episode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the law
November 11th, 2022 | 29 mins 16 secs
ai, ai-generated artwork, ai-generated brands, ai-generated stock photos, cleveland, department of defense, desk tents, dod, dr. dre, drafts, dyngus day, gaming beds, hellekson's law, larps, last shift office chair, medieval music, motorized gaming beds, mulesoft, north korea, north korean military chorus, office charis, ohio, pocket, poland, rage against the machine, rockin'1000, software policy, toilet seats
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs!
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Episode 238: Harmonica-Playing Firefighters Holding Coke Bottles
October 1st, 2022 | 29 mins 24 secs
4th psychological operations group, airres mask, analysis, arizona iced tea, cognitive bias, cognitive bias codex, default passwords, door, experience, ghosts in the machine, guy fieri, haptic controller, haptics, intuition, mouth, mouth haptics, mufflers, non-fungible olive gardens, passwords, press conference, sandman, spinocchio, stablecoins, suffocation, todaq, usdtea, virtual reality, vr, walk signs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about stable coins and slippery slopes
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Episode 236: SodaStream Nighttime Formula
May 31st, 2022 | 26 mins 26 secs
1491, ai, alvin and the chipmunks, burger king, charles c. mann, co2, dall-e 2, deep dreams podcast, google calendar, gosleep, grammarly, job interviews, knockout gas, markdown, new hires, openai, public pianos, red hat summit, resume hacking, resumes, simply piano, sleep, sodastream, the melvins
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about technology-enhanced sleep, technology-enhanced image generation, and technology-enhanced job hunting
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Episode 235: The Cult of the Dead Fruit on the Back of the Computer
May 19th, 2022 | 52 mins 23 secs
coloring books, confidential computing, container commandos, docker, docker desktop, edge, fedora silverblue, flatpak, kubernetes, openshift, podman, podman desktop, podman in action, podman-machine, podman-tui, red hat enterprise linux, red hat summit, rhel, rhel for edge, rpm-ostree, scale, silverblue, singularity, systemd, toolbx, virtiofs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about his new crayon-free book Podman in Action!
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Episode 234: You Are the Active Ingredient
May 6th, 2022 | 31 mins 3 secs
amazon, ar, ar real estate, augmented reality, cows, cryptocurrencies, denver, denver broncos, fake shutdown, farmers, garage door openers, grammarly, grammarly premium, ios, malware, metal, metal detector, milk, milk production, missile silos, music, personally identifiable information, pii, placebo pills, placebos, ratings, real estate, superworld, uber, vr, zeebo
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time)
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Episode 233: Flavor Canister
February 28th, 2022 | 31 mins 52 secs
ai, back to the future, deep fakes, detachable tongues, drafts, eisenhower matrix, eric stoltz, flavor, flavor canisters, flavor perception, gans, google meet bot, ilo, initial litigation offering, lickable tvs, membership attacks, odd telephone numbers, priorities, ryval, tasks, telephone numbers, todoist
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reverse engineering taste and reverse engineering AI training sets!
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Episode 232: CRIME SKELETON!
February 16th, 2022 | 27 mins 25 secs
busy simulator, cockroaches, crime skeleton, doom, drafts, fish, fish operated vehicle, fov, i libertine, jean shepherd, microcontrollers, non-fungible olive gardens, olive garden, rats, remote control, rescue, robots, screaming, search and rescue, skeletons, uavs, vr
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fish, rats, cockroaches, and screaming
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Episode 231: Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble
February 7th, 2022 | 25 mins 19 secs
ai, ai prosecutor, air conditioning, akron, allendale, arduino, arduino leonardo, austin, badusb, blower, bridges, candles, dad bands, donotpay, email, fin7, henry kissinger, iphone, kevin rose, larsony, management, mouse jigglers, mouse movers, open source, prosecution, ransomware, robot lawyers, texas, theft, weather
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge
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Episode 230: Need Some Gom Jabbars
December 23rd, 2021 | 33 mins 57 secs
9100, acetate, all i want for christmas is you, bidi, biometrics, captions, cartoons, chia pets, deepfakes, dr. david a. wheeler, dune, fingerprints, labor, long eggs, luminations, mariah carey, metaverse, microsoft teams, neural yorker, new yorker, plant wigs, port 9100, ransomware, receipt printers, sociogram, trojan source, twisted sister, unicode, unionization, video conferencing, we're not gonna take it, wood glue
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake fingers, and fake code
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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