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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The podcast currently has 255 episodes available.

Chaos Lever Podcast episodes:

September 13, 2022Relighting Our Users [25]
Relighting Our Users
Episode: 25
Published: 09/13/2022
Stories
Spam Sucks, And There’s A Lot Of It
According to Statista, in September of 2021, there was a daily average of 105 billion emails sent. Of those 105 billion, 89 billion were spam
A lot of small sites to give up on the concept of self-hosting email servers altogethe
Replacing SMTP: A Proposal
Lightning Round
The Storage Was Within You All Along
Apple Release Event Goes Exactly Like Everyone Knew It Would
Apple��s iPhone userbase now makes up over 50% of the total smartphone market
Accuracy actually matters, who knew? Not the ISPs.
IRS to ��look into�� setting up free e-filing system
More and more states are requiring companies to post salary ranges for jobs
Bitwarden Gets 100 Million from Venture Capital, Christopher Has Second Thoughts About Migrating to Bitwarden
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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59min
September 06, 2022Soapy Alt Dave [24]
Soapy Alt Dave
Episode: 24
Published: 09/06/2022
Stories
Best Practices are an Illusion
No actual links, but here’s the four categories:
Theoretical (Completely abstracted from the technology)
Tech specific (Abstracted from a specific vendor, applied to a tech stack or area)
Industry specific (Abstracted from a specific vendor, applied to a vertical)
Vendor specific (Applied to a specific product)
Lightning Round
IRS Accidentally Makes Business Tax Return Data Public For Like�� A Year
Cloudflare relents, refuses to engage with reality
Check out the linked post from Liz the Grey for more context
LastPass Gets Hacked - It��s Not As Bad As it Sounds
VMware Explore Happened
Amazon Decides That It��s Time To Be Responsible About Reviews Only When It Comes To Amazons Own Properties
Web 3 is in its Infancy, still a very ugly baby
Sucking on a Chili Dog
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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1h
August 30, 2022Centralia Hairspray Challenge [23]
Centralia Hairspray Challenge
Episode: 23
Published: 08/30/2022
Stories
Mudge Ado About Something
This is a story about a man called Mudge who said some pretty intense things about Twitter
This week, he dropped some bombshells in a whistleblower document and a companion interview with Time Magazine
Lightning Round
Heroku Free-tier No More
Jack Dorsey regrets that twitter became a company
You Get What You Pay For Is Finally True
Yet another AI-based image creator released, and this one is open-source
Absolutists Absolutely Suck
Google giveth, and Google taketh away in Android UX, with updated advertising guidance for developers
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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55min
August 23, 2022Down With The Sickness [22]
Down With The Sickness
Episode: 22
Published: 08/23/2022
Stories
Because you wanted to know more about SmartNICs right? RIGHT????
Network Interface Controller
To further enhance that interaction, the Data Plane Development Kit project was created
Open Programmable Infrastructure project to try and set an open standard for how these DPUs work
OpenStack has drivers for using Neutron with Open Virtual Networking
VMware Project Monterey
ROCE and iWARP
Lightning Round
ProtonMail Suffers Second Outage in 8 Weeks, Users are Not Amused
Why is Ethereum always preparing? Just Merge already.
2 year old iOS bug that renders VPNs unreliable still not fixed, says researcher
Beware the unused account says Mandiant
In the early 2000��s, Janet Jackson��s video for Rhythm Nation would crash computers
Sun Engineer Brendan Gregg causing observable latency in a disk array by shouting at them
Google Cloud Armor fends off 46M Requests Per Second DDoS Attack
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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58min
August 16, 2022A Table Of Cards [21]
A Table Of Cards
Episode: 21
Published: 08/16/2022
Stories
Things were going great until they weren��t: Companies floundering after Covid boom cools down
Mark Zuckerberg, asshole-in-chief of Facebook, released a memo to employees
People at google are concerned about the ��vibe change��
Controversial stock trading platform Robinhood has dropped users steadily since it went public
So just a quick rundown of some other companies that have announced layoffs
Silicon Valley therapists are in high demand
25% increase in anxiety and depression worldwide
Solitary confinement is regarded as torture
Lightning Round
2026 will be the year of the SmartNIC, just like every year before
Apple finally bringing back the mascot you didn��t know they had
Microsoft Open Sources�� It��s Emojis
Defined in the Unicode Standard
openmoji.org
All Apple internet traffic redirected through Russian state-owned telecom for half a day
https://isbgpsafeyet.com
Committing fraud is a Breeze, getting away with it is not.
Google Fiber making a bit of a comeback after being stalled for 5+ years
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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48min
August 09, 2022It Wasn��t Worth The Effort [20]
It Wasn��t Worth The Effort
Episode: 20
Published: 08/09/2022
Stories
Zero Trust Doesn’t Exist
Zero Trust has been around since 1994
Kerberos is the authentication protocol used by Active Directory and other LDAP implementations
Security Assertion Markup Language is a standard by which a client , service provider, and identity provider can perform the authentication dance
Lightning Round
DuckDuckGo mostly says No, to Microsoft
Comcast ramps soft policy of return to the office, based on essentially nothing
Don��t Trust Microsoft? FauxPilot offers an alternative
Keep an eye on the GitHub repo for new releases
EquiFail Faxes again- er, wait. I did that wrong.
Winamp returns to abuse an alpaca
Last week we talked about SATA cables sharing data over about a 3 foot distance. This week fiber optic cable says, ��Hold my beer.��
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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52min
August 02, 2022The Wisdom of Fred Smellypants [19]
The Wisdom of Fred Smellypants
Episode: 19
Published: 08/02/2022
Stories
A not so quick deepdive into this HTTP/3 thing
Page performance metrics from webpagetest.org
TLS 1.3 introduced the concept of early data as ��0-RTT.��
The vast majority of firewall vendors recommend blocking QUIC as a security measure
F5 thinks that QUIC is inevitable
Lightning Round
Despite Crypto Winter, Investors see a Web3 Spring in Unstoppable Domains
100TB SSDs are available; 200TB SSDs on the horizon
Can IBM Protect Crypto Against Quantum? Yes and No.
Congress passes CHIPs act, helping to fund tech programs in the US
Tacocat weeps for the fallen
The Browser Company��s Arc Browser getting wider release
The browser company��s waitlist
Arc even has competition from a non-beta product, called Sidekick
New VERY beta product called DayBridge is trying re-imagine calendars
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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1h 1min
July 26, 2022Synchronous Viralicity [18]
Synchronous Viralicity
Episode: 18
Published: 07/26/2022
Stories
Is Open Core Dead? No.
The Future of Open Source, or Why Open Core Is Dead
There��s a bunch more in the list, and if you��re curious you can hit up the show notes for the link.
Elastic, in particular, tried to create a new license that prevented AWS and other cloud providers from running their software without paying
AWS is free to fork an older version of the code and continue to develop it in the open
Lightning Round
Mozilla enables URL Stripping (which is not as sexy as it sounds). Facebook responds by encrypting links, which is not as safe as it sounds
Mozilla announced that their firefox browser would be automatically stripping out these query parameters
There is nothing that can be done to get away from the current facebook tracking model
Hardcoded passwords are still�� bad? Yes, bad.
Simply unplugging the network doesn’t guarantee your data is safe
Stumbling into the cloud era, vSphere now supports cloud-init
OpenAI makes full DALL-E 2 model widely available- for a cost
NFTs hit a roadblock with Minecraft
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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55min
July 19, 2022Shiny Vampires in the Woods [17]
Shiny Vampires in the Woods
Episode: 17
Published: 07/19/2022
Stories
Is there a limit to the Hyperscalers?
Gestalt IT Roundtable Podcast - Multi-Cloud is Inevitable
CloudFlare R2 Service
Gartner��s customer review site shows that Citrix is superior to AWS when it comes to Application Delivery
Boutique search engines are starting to make sense
The Digital Markets Act was passed on July 5th in the EU
Follow Dwayne Monroe for more on publicly-owned clouds
Lightning Round
Linux/UNIX text editor Vim has first major version release in 3 years, somehow there is controversy
Fetch a Free FIDO key with AWS
Netflix chooses Microsoft as their advertising partner
HTTP/3 is now a standard! Awkward slash and all.
Elon Musk��s lawyers continue to enrich themselves by arguing in bad faith over Twitter deal
Legal Eagle breakdown of the case
He��s a 10, but has an object deserialization vulnerability
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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56min
July 12, 2022DevOops I Did It Again [16]
DevOops I Did It Again
Episode: 16
Published: 07/12/2022
Stories
DevOps is a failure
Ned’s tweet
Lightning Round
Most expensive component in servers, might be getting cheaper
The Twitter Muskening continues to failify, the internet revels in the chaos
Samsung scoops TSMC with nanometer 3
Apple investing in lockdown modes for iOS devices
Starlinking from anywhere
Microsoft does the right thing the wrong way, the accountants complain, Microsoft does the wrong thing and undoes what it did- also the wrong way
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022
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53min

FAQs about Chaos Lever Podcast:

How many episodes does Chaos Lever Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 255 episodes available.