Chaos Lever Podcast

By Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner

Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combin... more

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January 10, 2023Slow Motion Scraping [40]
Slow Motion Scraping
Episode: 40
Published: 1/10/2023
Low Risk and Big Reward - or the problem of highly centralized systems that contain critical data for thousands of customers
Rackspace
Rackspace��s managed Exchange service went mysteriously dark back in December 2nd
Rackspace has since released the results of a forensic examination into the incident
CrowdStrike determined that the mitigations were insufficient, and that there was a previously undisclosed method for intrusion that did not require VCE-2022-41040
LastPass
On an episode of Backup Central��s Restore It All podcast I talked extensively about LastPass
Everything else, for every LastPass user was exfiltrated. In LastPass��s own words
I talk about this in more detail elsewhere but the tl;dr is: change all your passwords
CircleCI
The information available on CircleCI��s website is frustratingly vague to the point of parody.
Feels like a gross understatement to your alleged 1 Million developers and 30k organizations
Twitter
The attack looks like it was slow motion scraping
Lightning Round
Apparently Gen-Z thinks that the coolest technology is as old as they are
Android without ARM? Sounds like a RISC-Y proposition
Speaking of processors- Apple made a mistake designing one
Noncompete is bullshit, and soon also illegal
Artist who did real work accused of using AI because “it looks artificially generated”
A Fond Farewell to 3G
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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54min
January 03, 2023Celestial Fire on the Royal Edifice [39]
Celestial Fire on the Royal Edifice
Episode: 39
Published: 1/3/2023
Stories
Prediction Palooza!
Ned��s clearly right and superior predictions:
More major outages than 2022
CXL available in the public cloud
Elon will no longer be CEO of Twitter and Tesla
Mastodon adoptions will level off and stagnate
Public cloud growth with slow by 30%
Supercloud will die and unceremonious death
Twitter thread between Dave Vallente and Charles Fitzgerald.
DevOps is dead, long live DevOps
DevOps Is Dead! Long Live Platform Engineering! Did We Get Confused?
Chris’ Garbage (I mean excellent ideas):
Not just it outages increasing, but also security incidents
Elon hands over control of Twitter to Sheryl Sandberg
Zero Trust and passwordless will gain a lot more traction
Regulations are coming regarding AI and Crypto
Lightning Round
No lightning round this week. Slow news time and doesn’t really fit with a predictions episode.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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49min
December 13, 2022Six Tanks A Singing [38]
Six Tanks A Singing
Episode: 38
Published: 12/13/2022
Stories
Is Amazon Still re:Inventing?
As we mentioned last week, re:Invent 2022 happened. And it was fine?
I had excellent conversations with:
XoSphere
Aiven
Structura
Retool
Despite talking at Keynotes for many, many hours
Sometimes developers and infrastructure people appreciate a helping hand
Look up the Kin if you��d like a good laugh
Lightning Round
On the next episode of Elon Musk��s Increasingly Bad Decisions, a Twitter Crypto coin
Passkey Coming to Chrome Stable
Scientists demonstrate 100gbps link from groundstations to satellites
Raspberry Pi Wants You To CHILL
There��s a great case study posted on Eiara that details the timeline and reaction from the Mastodon community
AI text-generating engine ChatGPT from openai is taking the world by storm
FTC moves to block Microsoft��s purchase of Activision
If you��d like an extended deep dive on the matter, check out Ben Thompson��s post on Stratechery
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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49min
December 06, 2022Tin Foil Birds Aren��t Real [37]
Tin Foil Birds Aren��t Real
Episode: 37
Published: 12/06/2022
Stories
SlackOps- or, the modern way of handling Customer Relations
SlackOps ideas for developer workflows
According to Slack themselves, the way that Qumulo uses slack
Lightning Round
Android OEM Keys Leaked, Still Not Getting an iPhone
Excellent detail from Mishaal Rahman
I thought it was Skynet we were afraid of, not the OCP
Rackspace Fanatically Tells You To Go Away
Their Hosted Exchange product which was halted on December 2nd due to an unnamed issue
Rackspace��s Hosted Exchange was hacked using one of many well-known vulnerabilities
If you ever want to know how much of a scam something is, just look at the people involved
Starlink Gen2 Satellites Given The Green Light
AWS re:Invent finished on Friday, and there was much rejoicing
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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49min
November 29, 2022Bram Stoker��s Copper Emporium [36]
Bram Stoker��s Copper Emporium
Episode: 36
Published: 11/29/2022
Stories
SBF and The No Good Very Bad Day
A bank run is also what happened to FTX, caused by SBF��s rival CZ
Here��s probably my favorite pull quote from his bankruptcy filing in the court of Delaware
Checking out the series by Cold Fusion on YouTube
Coffeezilla is pretty decent too, but a little irritating
Patrick Boyle is goddamn hilarious
Lightning Round
Tensions over broken financial promises at Foxconn ended up in a violent protest
You can now install WSL as a Microsoft Store App
We��ve lost another titan of Computer Science- Dr Frederick Brooks dead at 91
The Mythical Man-Month quotes
New York Just Says No to Carbon Emitting Crypto
Microsoft��s Patch Tuesday routine releases of Windows Server updates breaks Domain Controllers
Looks Who��s Using Rust Now!
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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52min
November 22, 2022Pathetic Meat Bags [35]
Pathetic Meat Bags
Episode: 35
Published: 11/22/2022
Stories
The Cyber Resilience act is coming for your IoT Bullshit
EU Cyber Resiliency Act
This past month, there was another OpenSSL vulnerability
Azure Sphere
Lightning Round
That Time Bears Ruled Space
Bears living in space are animals which have been sent into space on board space missions
So apparently wireless charging is�� not great
The entire AMA is worth the read
GitHub Copilot being sued, others to surely follow
Rule 34 keeps being accurate - AI generated images are now being used for porn
FCC Releases Broadband Maps for Your Feedback
There is just enough basis in reality that they won��t get sued, although sometimes they do
I feel like crap, and Ned doesn��t care. What was the question again?
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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53min
November 15, 2022Squeezable Deans [34]
Squeezable Deans
Episode: 34
Published: 11/15/2022
Stories
Layoff, layoffs everywhere and record profits for CEOs
Starting with the rounds of layoffs, here��s a smattering
Meta lays off 11k people amounting to 13% of its workforce
Why is this happening now?
What should you do if you’re laid off?
What should you do if you’re not?
Lightning Round
We had it all wrong! The beginning of SkyNet is gonna be�� plants!
Twitter Engineer Calls Out Muskie, Gets Sacked
Apple iCloud Photos integration into�� Windows?
Google Actually Has to Pony Up for Privacy Violations
IBM announces 433-qubit ��Osprey�� Quantum processor, which is way more qubits than the last one was
Adorable CubeSat sent to the Moon, loves Pink Floyd?
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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45min
November 08, 2022Figuratively Baggels [33]
Figuratively Baggels
Episode: 33
Published: 11/08/2022
Stories
CXL! What is it good for?!?.. well, quite a bit actually.
OCP Global Summit 2022
Tech Field Day for CXL
Lightning Round
Surf the capitalism wave on a new browser brah.
The ��free speech�� world Elon actually wants: the freedom to spout woe-is-me bullsh*t from up on high, with no accountability whatsoever
Cloudflare claims huge future growth, analysts are underwhelmed
SETI is still active, and in fact is working harder than ever
SolarWinds, remember them? The SEC does!
I can��t dance I can��t talk. Only think about me is the way that I �� die
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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1h 1min
November 01, 2022Social Media Megafauna [32]
Social Media Megafauna
Episode: 32
Published: 11/01/2022
Stories
Once More ‘Round The Sun
Mastodon Docs
Find a server that works for you
Twitter has about 278M daily active users
LinkedIn has about 900M members
Facebook has 1.9B daily active users
TikTok has 1.8B monthly active users
The fediverse has about 6M users
According to Tech Crunch, Mastodon app downloads appear to be at an all time high
I have joined the Hachyderm.io server hosted by Kris Nova
Lightning Round
ISO 27001 updated for 2022
Nutanix Might Be For Sale. Who��s Buying?
Microsoft keeps trying to compete with iPad Pro, keeps falling on their face
Mobileye IPO Debuts at $21 a Share for an Intel Wash
Rambus releases PCIe 6 interface intended to add functionality for CXL 3.0 to SoC solutions
That Sinking Feeling Over At Twitter HQ
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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43min
October 25, 2022Andre The Peanut [31]
Andre The Peanut
Episode: 31
Published: 10/25/2022
Stories
Remote Work Reality
Microsoft report on Hybrid Work hits on a huge disconnect between management and workers
A 31,000-person study conducted at the beginning of 2022 shows a plurality of workers who are against full-time in office working arrangements
Comparing March through August 2019 vs 2020, the report showed a clear productivity improvement
The Slack based Future Forum did a survey of 10,000 workers just this month that showed clear advantages in productivity for hybrid and full time workforces
According to the JLL Occupancy Benchmarking Guide from 2020, the average cost of on-site operations pre pandemic was a staggering $463/mo per square meter
Comcast is trying to slow-motion drag people back into the city?
Zuck��s latest theory is that people should use the metaverse as the workplace
Lightning Round
GitHub is making code forks less of a Forking nightmare
Microsoft Azure ��misconfiguration�� leads to 65,000 entities losing data, MSFT still says the damage was ��greatly exaggerated��
Google adds some guac to the security burrito
Microsoft looking to invest in OpenAI��s DALL-E project, integrate its functionality into Microsoft products and tools
After WSL, Windows Subsystem for Android is the logical extension
ISC2 is in the middle of a seriously contentious new election and bylaws modification controversy
Wim Remes, famous outspoken Belgian IT Security poobah has been just one of the prominent voices leading the charge against these by-laws
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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49min

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