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 189 Episodes.
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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.
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Episode 211: 90% of Everything Is Crap
December 3rd, 2020 | 53 mins 5 secs
android tv, bears, chat, chromecast, colossus, colossus: the forbin project, covid, covid-19, deepfakes, garbage bins, garbage cans, google home, google home assistant, google meet, google play music, google tv, hoopla, just watch, mmhmm, motorized roller skates, nvidia, park rangers, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, rhel 8, roller skates, rotten tomatoes, salesman, sassy justice, shoulders, skype, south park, spikey, sturgeon's law, vyzer, yellowstone, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hacking faces, hacking locks, and hacking video conferencing
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Episode 210: The Opposite of ASMR
November 18th, 2020 | 50 mins 31 secs
blix, burnout, coffee table books, covid, google home, gpt-3, openai, presence awareness, shazam, snakes, spiders, the third day, unnecessary inventions, vika+, visualizations
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides, downsides, and dark sides of GPT-3.
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Episode 208: Impact Mapping an SBAR
October 21st, 2020 | 34 mins 7 secs
1password, bluf, chewing, dental school robots, haircuts, hotp, impact mapping, necksense, pregnancy tests, sbar, teamwork, totp
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about pregnancy tests, eating tests, and teamwork tests
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Episode 207: From a Factory Mustang to a Shelby
October 13th, 2020 | 33 mins 24 secs
ai, dev technology, gsa, machine learning, open source, un e-government survey
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with John Janek about turning an AI loose on software license agreements!
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Episode 206: Let a Thousand Flowers Zoom
September 27th, 2020 | 33 mins 30 secs
cds, clockwise, college, documents, keyword-mashing, math, mirrors, sbar, school, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Zoombombing, keyword-mashing, and flagrant hypocrisy
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Episode 205: Soylent Vest
September 14th, 2020 | 36 mins 5 secs
bluf, bottom line up front, confessions of a public speaker, covid, digital detox, digital minimalism, email, emergency room, emergency room doctor, er doctor, man bites dog, midsommar, posthuman habitats, television, the hater, vegetable vest, vegetables, vests, video conferencing, wirecutter
This week Dave and Gunnar digital detox for 75 days, wear our own crops, and further up our video call and email games
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Episode 204: My Boss Is Making Me Walk Around in This Bubble
August 24th, 2020 | 40 mins 15 secs
accessibility, agile, agile family, aliexpress, bloons, bookcase coffins, compiler bombs, day one, disney, don't fear the reaper, earplugs, electric cars, face shields, fresh prince, hazmat suits, iceland, irish ballads, kandi, krispy kreme, mack's earplugs, podcasts, pods, ppe, screaming, virtual backgrounds, virtual meetings, widowmaker
This week Dave and Gunnar explore hazmat suit and Zoom background fashion, scream at Iceland, and set off compiler bombs.
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Episode 200: Ask for More
July 20th, 2020 | 32 mins 29 secs
after man, ask for more, hollywood, japan, netogitation, neural networks, photo albums, rhel, stars, supercomputing, zoology
This week Dave and Gunnar Ask for More to improve their negotiation skills
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Episode 199: One Episode Is a Tragedy. 200 Episodes Is a Statistic.
July 7th, 2020 | 34 mins 34 secs
cameo, end-to-end encryption, face masks, hellomasks, lamphone, light bulbs, listening devices, model y, nuclear semiotics, red bot chili peppers, semiotics, tesla, the thing, tool shed, viewer mail, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about communicating through masks, communicating through lightbulbs, communicating through tiny capacitive membranes connected to small quarter-wavelength antennae, and communicating through nuclear semiotics.
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Episode 198: Iron Skillets and Gummy Bears
June 30th, 2020 | 24 mins 32 secs
ads, bgp, border gateway protocol, cast iron skillets, cryptocurrency mining, deepfacedrawing, devo, energy dome, face shields, hiit, isps, microsoft, pants, penguin classics, safe meeting, smithey ironware
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about face shields thanks to your garbage, cryptocurrency mining thanks to your brain waves, and internet insecurity thanks to your ISP
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Episode 197: Masks Are Like Pants for Your Face
June 9th, 2020 | 40 mins 57 secs
99 percent invisible, brooks brothers, end-to-end encryption, hotels, keybase, larceny, masks, robocop, robocop dog, señor wences, social distancing, sole, the great influenza, thermometers, treadmills, zoom
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about masks with mouths, parks with robots, Zoom with security sold separately, and hotels with larcenists