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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May 24, 2022Wenceslas Denied [10]
Show Notes
Wenceslas Denied
Episode: 10
Published: 05/24/2022
Stories
NED: Good King Wenceslas came to town riding on a pony. Tucked a feather in hip cap and called it macaroni!
CHRIS: That’s uh, that’s not the right song. It’s Good Gnome Wenceslas and he liked fettucini.
NED: Yuck, GGW had some shit taste in pasta.
CHRIS: You should have seen his Yule logs.
Security as a Philosophy
Links:
How can I be secure without spending a lot of money?
Quad9 is a free DNS service that maintains a list of malicious internet addresses, and blacklists them
Lightning Round
Good talent is hard to find and keep
The ��Deal�� that Elon is stuck with to buy Twitter is just staggeringly, astonishingly bad
Windows 11. Good enough I guess.
The nagware campaign intensifies- apparently this has been showing up in the wild on Win10 desktops during startup
Remember way back when, when we told you to patch your systems? That includes VMware systems too
Look out PCIe here comes CXL
Introducing a new fun favorite website to follow: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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54min
May 17, 2022Strawberry, No Icing [9]
Show Notes
Strawberry, No Icing
Episode: 9
Published: 05/17/2022
Stories
Google I/O - We want to be Apple too!
NED: Do you think it was too much with the “help you till you’re dead” thing?
CHRIS: Too much? Not enough I’d say. You really think Google is gonna stop when you’re dead?
NED: Fair point. Would the recently deceased like to see a range of caskets and burial options?
GHOST: Oh shit, I’m dead. How is Google in the afterlife?
CHRIS: Google is here to help. Forever and always. Now check out these coffins. They’re all in various shades of spirit-vortex blue.
Links:
Keynote video
The Future is Cloudier Than Ever
Lightning Round
After Nearly 21 Years Of Dominance, Apple Announces The End Of iPods
Rackspace want to go out, wants to come in, wants to go out
Customers who were locked into Rackspace had to continue to suffer for the duration of their contracts
DockerCon Details Desktop-Centric Future, Plus Nestybox Acquisition
The Allegedly ��Stable�� TerraUSD Coin Bounces Its Value Violently In A Matter Of Days
The relationship between UST and luna entered a ��death spiral.��
RHEL 9 was officially released and there was much rejoicing.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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37min
May 10, 2022Supercloud Is Banish-ed [8]
Show Notes
Supercloud Is Banish-ed
Episode: 8
Published: 05/10/2022
In case you were wondering, this is the race we were discussing.
Stories
The Future is Cloudier Than Ever
As promised/threatened, it has come time to dig into the financial earning reports of the big three cloud providers, and as a bonus we can also take a peek at what��s going on with Oracle and IBM, and maybe even some of the traditional vendors like HPE and Dell. I don��t know if we��ll have enough time!
Links:
We are still going to start with some numbers, courtesy of siliconANGLE
Charles Fitzgerald has published a snarky and deeply enjoyable read over on his Platfornomics
I can assure you that it is limited, as some folks in the EU discovered during the early days of the pandemic.
Here��s an early attempt at a definition of supercloud
Lightning Round
Slow Moving Botnet Uses IoT and Time To Hack Companies - It’s Super Successful!
Celebrate National Password Day by Ending It
SMTP, Insecure Internet Protocols, Has Another Bad Day
Samsung sees VMware SD card confusion, ups the ante
Facebook��s international greed really does put the ��earth�� in ��scum of the earth��
Hate Running Citrix? Let the clouds do it for you!
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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38min
May 03, 2022Poised for Data Dominance [7]
Show Notes
Poised for Data Dominance
Episode: 7
Published: 05/03/2022
Look I don’t know how much of this AI-enhanced microwave called Magnetron story is true, and how much is theatre. And frankly, I don’t give a damn. Go feed your eyeballs and top up your mirth meter.
Stories
Google AMP sucks, and a LOT of people are trying to ditch it
NED: Good god man, I thought you told me no one reads the show notes. Why did you put so many links?
CHRIS: Because Bratwurst.
NED: Bratwurst? What the? How does..? OH. I GET IT. LINKS.
CHRIS: Any more stupid questions?
NED: [SIGH] No.
CHRIS: Then get back to scrubbing.
Links:
2015 was the prime time to do it, as average phone data speeds around that time were abysmal
A 16-state lawsuit claiming antitrust violations by google
A number of web content producers including Vox and BuzzFeed are thinking of ditching AMP completely
Brave put out a blog post that said AMP is “harmful to privacy”
In 2020 Brave threw a complaint into the EU��s court
Google getting sued for stacking the deck in favor of it��s own Google Shopping product
DuckDuckGo browser apps will convert any AMP links to the original publisher��s webpage before being displayed
Also it��s worth noting that DDG has a privacy plugin
Google is working on a new user tracking system called FLoC
FLoC is so hip, it even has a github page
There is significant concern around FLoC, as the EFF helpfully points out
The famous example of Target knowing the state of a pregnancy based only on purchase patterns alone
Mozilla evaluated FLoC when it was announced, and determined it was wanting
Web sites have rejected access to applications based on the browser being used
There is a humorous history of the user-agent string
Lightning Round
Speaking of terrible browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer is still a thing, until June 15
Atlassian Provides Exhaustive Summary of Incident
VMWare clarifies the ESXi boot-from-SD card situation for the millionth time
Couldn��t have happened to a nicer fella
Pixel watch prototype ��found�� by review site. It seems .. fine?
Istio to join the CNCF (finally!)
Part of the trademark conversation was driven by AWS�� creation of Elasticsearch and the perceived infringement on Elastic��s trademarks
The Elon Addendum
Elon continues to be a very silly man who has no idea what he��s talking about, but cannot seem to stop talking. Perhaps if he did, he��d actually have to think about what his words mean. And therein lies madness. Tech Crunch continues on their streak of calling out Elon��s bullshit.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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49min
April 26, 2022There Is No Multicloud [6]
Show Notes
There Is No Multicloud
Episode: 6
Published: 04/26/2022
Stories
Does Multicloud Exist?
NED: So um, I don’t really have any links b/c I was just ranting the entire time.
CHRIS: It’s fine, just put whatever here. No one reads the show notes anyway.
NED: Whew, that’s a relief. I still feel bad though.
CHRIS: Just add a link to whatever, no one cares.
NED: Okay. Here’s Human Infrastructure Magazine where my multicloud thoughts appear in print.
CHRIS: Do you feel better?
NED: A little?
CHRIS: Good, now go get my pumice stone. These corns aren’t going to scrub themselves.
Lightning Round
Ubuntu releases latest Long Term Release version - 22.04 ��Jammy Jellyfish��
$500B in cloud spend and I��m still working in my basement
Apple released Thunderbolt 4 cables, USB-C quietly wept
Hollowcore is not a new EDM genre for nihilists
Governmental ��Hack the DHS�� program bears significant buggy fruit
Waiter, there��s a Fly in my Consul Service
Fly.io was on my other podcast Day Two Cloud last year
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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38min
April 19, 2022Dog Is My Copilot [5]
Show Notes
Dog Is My Copilot
Episode: 5
Published: 04/19/2022
Stories
Github Copilot - enabling questionable coding at the speed of AI
Links to check out:
So, after using Copilot for about 2 hours, I��m basically an expert
Concerns about GitHub taking advantage (and monetizing- this ain��t gonna be free, kids) based on people��s contributions to open-source projects
A quick look at the (no-opt-outable) Telemetry Terms shows that your code is 100% uploaded to GitHub and investigated
shellcheck.net
From the GitHub Copilot FAQ
Github also just released Copilot Labs, an even more experimental add-on that is working to extend what Copilot can do
Lightning Round
The same thing we literally just talked about, except this time for visual art
An astronaut lounging in a tropical resort in space as pixel art
I mean it��s right there in the name, Puppet. Of course they would have a master.
Google working with iFixit to aid in sourcing parts for old phone repairs
Let��s get AMPed about an IPO y��all!
First major malware that specifically targets Lambda found in the wild
Use a Cloud Service they said, your data will be safer they said.
Musk Addendum - aka let’s not make this a regular thing ok?
Alex Wilhelm from TechCrunch has a fantastic article.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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47min
April 12, 2022Rabid NFT Squirrels [4]
Show Notes
Rabid NFT Squirrels
Episode: 4
Published: 04/12/2022
Stories
Strap in everyone, we��re going to talk about Web3
Sources to check out:
Line Goes Up from Folding Ideas
David Rosenthal��s presentation at EE380
Spencer Cornelia’s YouTube Channel
Lightning Round
Google joining AWS and Azure at the Edge
ARM yourself Azure
We��ve linked the blog post where you can apply to be part of the preview
In the ��Not getting my hopes up category�� First Light claims a nuclear fusion breakthrough
Insecure billionaire crybaby buys seat on Twitter��s board of directors because ��free speech�� or something
Elon Musk only cares about free speech when it��s speech in his benefit. If any speech is criticism of himself, he does everything in his power to censor the life out of it.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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41min
April 05, 2022Half An Arsonist [3]
Show Notes
Half An Arsonist
Episode: 3
Published: 04/05/2022
Stories
Security Field Day 7
Security Field Day 7 website
YouTube Page with all XFD7 presentations
Juniper Connected Security
Racktop Links
Securing your data is just as important as securing your network
The product Racktop sells is actually the OS/security platform, called BrickStor SP
Lightning Round
AMD acquires Pensando right out from under HPEs nose
Apple planning a hardware subscription service because a 2.8T market cap just isn��t enough
RedHat open sources StackRox: Securing containers has never been open sourcier!
��For example, there are only 25 blimps in the world.�� Says young smartypants running my new favorite twitter follow
��Extreme Ironing, which combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.��
Bad Lip Reading: Tech Interview Edition
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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42min
March 30, 2022Secure Virtual Giraffe [2]
Show Notes
Secure Virtual Giraffe
Episode: 2
Published: 03/30/2022
Intro
That PBS video about English Spelling
Stories
Security Field Day 7
Security Field Day 7 website
YouTube Page with all XFD7 presentations
Keeper Links
Keeper Security website
Encyption docs from Keeper
Keeper refers to their encryption model as ��Zero-Knowledge and Zero-Trust Architecture.��
If you have an enterprise license with Keeper, a family license is free for personal use
Keeper��s February 2022 acquisition of glyptodon
Microsoft Links
Microsoft Loves Linux- er, I mean, Security!
Microsoft XDR
Microsoft also JUST released a Ransomware Recommendations dashboard
Defender for Cloud��s supported kill-chain analysis, based on version 7 of the MITRE ATT&CK matrix
The very best way to wrangle microsoft portals is a service hosted by NOT MICROSOFT
The best way to start looking at Microsoft Licensing is also not a Microsoft property
Sentinel has the ability to ingest logs from a lot of other providers using an ever-expanding list of connectors
Lightning Round
NFTs are awful and worthless and are 100% a scam. Want to know more? Buy our NFT!
Counterpoint: Yuga Labs raises a seed round at a $4B valuation.
Counter-counterpoint: Unstoppable is looking for funding at a $1B valuation to be the Okta of Web3
Speaking of Okta: This story just keeps getting better. And by better I mean worse. And by worse I mean hilarious.
Zoom Avatars! You can finally turn up to a zoom meeting as a rabbit, or a dog!
Giraffes have the same amount of cervical vertebrae as humans?
I was told that the future would be plastics. I was NOT told they would be in my bloodstream.
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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50min
March 22, 2022Layered Tech Garbage [1]
Show Notes
Layered Tech Garbage
Episode: 1
Published: 03/22/2022
Stories
Here are the stories we covered:
Storage is in my DNA, and yours, and that guy over there with the Phish t-shirt
Microsoft unreleases ads-in-file-explorer feature from test build of Win11, calls the ��experimental�� feature release ��unintentional.��
Microsoft, disgusted with Chris�� assertion that they are merely obsessed with ads, makes it clear that Advertising is the company��s ��Newfound Religion��
Not to be left out of chip-a-pa-looza Oracle is investing big in Ampere
New emojis are rolling out for general use and none of them are lasagna
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance
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39min

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