Podcast appearances and mentions of ben balter

In this episode with Ben Balter, we talk about what GitHub is, why GitHub isn't for lawyers, and some rules for communication and knowledge management that we can all take away from GitHub's model. During the show, we mentioned Greg Siskind's website. Check it out here. Be sure to read the inspiration for this podcast on rules for communication at GitHub here.

In this episode with Ben Balter, we talk about what GitHub is, why GitHub isn’t for lawyers, and some rules for communication and knowledge management that we can all take away from GitHub’s model. During the show, we mentioned Greg Siskind's website. Check it out here. Be sure to read the inspiration for this podcast on rules for communication at GitHub here.

Guest: Ben Balter @benbalter Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-155-ben-balter-moving-the-world-forward-at-github

Ben Balter is the Government Evangelist at GitHub — the world’s largest software development network — where he leads the efforts to encourage adoption of open source philosophies, making all levels of government better, one repository at a time.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about encrypting everything, why encryption doesn’t matter, and why we are all Charlie Brown now. Lucy, in the role of a cloud server provider. Or telco. Or regulator. Every videogame memory from Gunnar’s childhood, implemented in JavaScript Taipan! UK spy chief, parroting his US counterparts, calls for crypto backdoors End-to-End Gmail Encryption code is up. New from the EFF: Secure Messaging Scorecard Update for 2020 (HT Lydia Yates of Comparitech!): The best encrypted messaging apps (and their limitations) in 2020 PrivacyGrade: Grading The Privacy Of Smartphone Apps Verizon and AT&T “supercookie” MITM attack. See if you’re being tracked at the obviously named amibeingtracked.com. D&G bait of the week: Dropbox’s Drew Houston Responds To Snowden’s Privacy Criticism: It’s A Trade-Off Aerophobia meets claustrophobia: Windowless Planes Will Give Passengers Panoramic Views. Ready To Use Within 10 Years. Yay? Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own ‘Dark Web’ Site Check your Hilton HHonors Points: Hackers plunder Hilton ‘HHonors’ rewards points, go on shopping spree ORNL and Dave’s replay: GovLoop: How Open Source Can Help Overcome Government’s Biggest Challenges OpenStack User Survey November 2014 are out. We maintain the vast majority of technologies used in computer, network, and storage, and 40% of the user base. Sweet! Heroism as anti-pattern: “VPAT is Public Sector specific, and therefore all previous cases have been resolved successfully by referring to Gunnar.” Ben Balter’s guide to communicating on GitHub works even without GitHub. EFF guide to avoiding surveillance includes not just articles, but “playlists” based on user stories. Cutting Room Floor Good Grief! Cancer Boy! is a strange little film reveals the utter futility of Charlie Brown’s very existence – in German! Related: Nein Quarterly Windows93 Movie trailer of the week: Daylight Saving Scientific paper of the week: The hipster effect:When anticonformists all look the same YouTube Flight Training of the week: Practice landing a Boeing with a charming Lithuanian accent.

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: monkey selfies, elephant-based coffee, and yak shaving with OpenStack. Dave is all all Skyped up on RHEL 7 Provides 32 bit qtwebkit which isn’t in EPEL HTTPS mandates: “With great power comes a tiny amount of responsibility.” D&G Joke Kit of the Week: Monkey’s selfie cannot be copyrighted, US regulators say Open source intelligence: Gun Safety, Self Defense, and Road Marches – Finding an ISIS Training Camp Hard Core History Shamless plug for my friend Graeme’s wonderful ISIS piece Stealing encryption keys through the power of touch When not working for America’s Got Talent finalists, Lauren spends her free time working at NASA. #2!!! –> Top 5 articles of the week: Linux, Hadoop, and NASA! Lauren’s Raspberry Pi virtual reality wall at NASA Dave takes RH254R for RHEL 7 Now with less yak shaving: Red Hat Introduces Open Virtual Appliance for Seamless OpenStack Evaluations Almost related: OpenShift Enterprise Offline Developer Virtual Machine Image CloudForms 3.1 released Lonely jobs, part 2: No. 1 Most Expensive Coffee Comes From Elephant’s No. 2 Cutting Room Floor Ben Balter’s Glossary of Government Acronyms IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook Pop songs as Shakespearean sonnets InternetSteamGauge: a pressure gauge to display Internet usage 26 Famous (And Free) Fonts You’ll Want To Start Using Immediately 15 foot tall parking sign Meanwhile in Japan: Apologies as a Service We Give Thanks Brian Stevens for his leadership and mentorship