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 175 Episodes.
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Episode 161: Continuous Improvement
June 7th, 2018 | 39 mins 31 secs
closer, foam pits, google assistant, google duplex, intelligence squared, kent state, net neutrality, neverssl, online dating, space suits, unicode
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about improving AI with improv, improving the internet with the air travel experience, improving fraud with spacesuits, and improving online dating with the gig economy
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Episode 160: Our other favorite RPM
May 19th, 2018 | 41 mins 9 secs
d&i, diversity
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Rachel Meyers about navigating the wild and wooly world of diversity and inclusion
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Episode 157: From One to Moby
April 19th, 2018 | 30 mins 10 secs
cyrptocurrency wallets, day one, earthworm jerky, ketchup singles, moby, tear gun
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about earthworm jerky and ketchup slice sandwiches, hacking tamper-proof cryptocurrency wallets, and D&G’s recommended hats for fooling face recognition systems into thinking that you’re Moby
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Episode 156: It’s not a breach, it’s a feature
April 12th, 2018 | 45 mins 44 secs
at&t, cambridge analytica, facebook, hal 9000, pinkerton, rocket man
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the definition of "breach," the definition of "permission," and the definition of "rat-catching team"
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Episode 155: Boris Karloff Meets Guacamole
March 22nd, 2018 | 38 mins 27 secs
boris karloff, diversity, google home, guacamole, jellyfish, open source, qr codes
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about jellyfish without jelly, voices without humans, source code without support, and diversity without discrimination
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Episode 154: Filter Out the Humans
March 8th, 2018 | 45 mins 24 secs
allen curve, camille tuutti, captcha, google home, nostradomus, twitter
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake followers faking people, real people trying to be fake bots to be successful fake people, and applying the Allen Curve to avoid turning into your enemies
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Episode 152: A Rasputin with Dreadlocks
February 8th, 2018 | 31 mins 52 secs
aliexpress, brushing, coreos, jaron lanier, linkedin, ripple, steelers, tinder
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: from Tinder with love, from China with hair bands, and from law enforcement with malware
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Episode 151: The masses have sharp eyes
January 18th, 2018 | 45 mins 20 secs
black mirror, lede, meltdown, openwrt, pagers, scotus, social credit score, spectre, tesla
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: security awareness meets art, the Supreme Court meets fantasy sports, your Party loyalty meets your credit score, and some Russians meet in San Francisco
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Episode 150: Stubbornness and Vanity
December 19th, 2017 | 40 mins 35 secs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: bots that want to be your lawyer, bots that want to waste scammers’ time, bots that want to be your therapist, and bots that want to be your friend
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Episode 149: Bully Stick
December 5th, 2017 | 31 mins 34 secs
beef pizzle, bully stick, facebook, open technology fund
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about a communications device nobody wants, domain names nobody wants, TV standards nobody wants, and pictures Facebook wants
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Episode 147: Dadbag
October 31st, 2017 | 40 mins 9 secs
akron, coinhive, cryptojacking, dadbag, pacemakers, pocket, tom bihn, travel, unicode
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Game Boys in your medical devices, unicode in your domain names, cryptocurrency miners in your browser, and commercial software in your national security systems
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Episode 146: The Mutability of History
August 31st, 2017 | 39 mins 49 secs
biometrics, fashion, keystroke logging, meetings, number stations, pacemakers, waze
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about repurposing voices, videos, keystrokes, and pacemaker programming
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Episode 145: Mark Giveth, Mark Taketh Away
August 22nd, 2017 | 39 mins 27 secs
audit, btrfs, nbde, openscap, overlayfs, permabit, rhel, security, selinux, storage, usbguard
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about RHEL 7.4 security and storage, and how to kill a feature
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Episode 144: Mark Thacker: Product Management Zelig
August 15th, 2017 | 12 mins 34 secs
open organization, technical product management
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Mark Thacker about technical product management and getting things done in open source and proprietary organizations
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Episode 143: Ostensibly Helpful, But Actually Dangerous
August 1st, 2017 | 40 mins 36 secs
fast forward, running, tom bihn, vpns, wings
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about things that are ostensibly helpful, but actually dangerous: robotic tutors, voice modulators, autocomplete, and the hellscape of Android VPN apps
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Episode 142: Spring Cleaning
July 25th, 2017 | 36 mins 48 secs
airgaps, airpods, chat systems, orange vests
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about power with stomach fluids (and blood), networks with light, and communication networks without people.