Chaos Lever Podcast

Just DID It On Em Episode: 26 Published: 09/20/2022 Stories Decentralized Identity Is Confusing The recently ratified Decentralized Identifier W3C standard SSI or Self-Sovereign Identity Decentralized Identity Foundation Lightning Round Uber gets like, all the way hacked The hacker had admin access to the Uber Slack channel and was talking to employees RISC-V getting a leg up on ARM? What do actua...

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 Al...

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)...

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 W...

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 Virtua...

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...

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 DuckDuck...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Exactly One Giraffe Episode: 15 Published: 06/28/2022 Stories The limitations of AI and AIOps (aka our own limitations) Can there be a logical air gap? Hybrid and multicloud trends and solutions Links: Cloud Field Day 14 Lightning Round The Linux kernel is getting rusty 7zip now supports the mark of the web, which is totally not related to the devil HashiConf EU Recap RSA event was a superspreader...

Shallow HAL 9000 Episode: 14 Published: 06/21/2022 Stories What are we going to do when AI achieves consciousness? Links: A Google engineer has been making some wild claims about a chat bot he was working on How easy it is to make people get emotional about inanimate objects such as an IKEA lamp Trying to find a way to describe AI that includes self-awareness The interview that Blake and co did wi...

Manifest Developer Episode: 13 Published: 06/14/2022 Stories We���re all developers now and you might as well admit it Links: freeCodeCamp Learn Python Lightning Round USB-C Wins: EU Mandates Standardization in Wired Charging By 2024 The sun also sets on Atom Want a free Microsoft Cert voucher? Complete a free Microsoft Build Challenge! Windows 11 22H2 now available for prerelease macOS 13 will bl...

Internet Explorer Nostalgia Episode: 12 Published: 06/07/2022 Stories IT’S A ���SEARCH ENGINES AND BROWSERS ARE NECESSARY AND CURRENTLY STILL BAD��� ROUNDUP!!! Links: DuckDuckGo dinged for passing Microsoft trackers through their browser app These mailers were delivered through the EDDM service of the USPS Brave���s tonedeaf ad campaign is still getting roasted on twitter The official Brave stance...

More Like VMwhere? Episode: 11 Published: 05/31/2022 Stories EXT: A suburban neighborhood in front of a house with green siding and white trim. It is definitely green and not at all blue, no matter what my ex says. Our heroes are exiting the front door wearing spring appropriate garb. CHRIS: It’s not that I don’t like cake, it’s more that I’m ambivalent towards it. Like me and cake would be great...

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 ca...

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 de...

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 t...

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...

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 Infrastructur...

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-...

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 pr...

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 fr...

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...