Chaos Lever Podcast

Security Field Day with Forward Networks Episode: 83 Published: 11/21/2023 Security Field Day 10: The Security Fieldening Another day, another��� Field Day? The most recent Security Field Day, namely the 10th one on record, was two weeks back, remotely this time, on November 8th. For people who want to see the full details, including recordings of the sessions, they are available at TechFieldDay.c...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 018 Published: 11/16/2023 Tech News of the Week for 11/16/2023 Apple Makes Major Video Output Device Change In Minor Release of OSX GitHub Copilot is the Future of Programming New AI Product Alert: This Time It���s a Lapel Pin That You Can Talk To! Ventana Pushing RISC-V in the Datacenter Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

KubeCon Conversations Episode: 82 Published: 11/14/2023 Deep Dishing on KubeCon 2023 Chicago Last week Ned attended KubeCon CloudNativeCon 2023 in Chicago, which for our purposes we will simply refer to as KubeCon going forward. While he was there, Ned met with a ton of vendors, walked the expo floor, and attended 0 keynotes or sessions. Let���s talk about it! Ned’s List of Cool Vendors : Acorn La...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 017 Published: 11/09/2023 Tech News of the Week for 11/09/2023 Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted On All Counts Great News! Nuclear Fusion is Just ��� 15 Years Away! Real-estate Company WeWork Likely Filing For Bankruptcy Trillion Dollar Advertising Company Google Continues Cash-Grab TLDs, this time .ing Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Hold My Asahi: Linux on the Mac Episode: 81 Published: 11/07/2023 Linux on Apple Hardware?!? Say it IS so! Asahi Linux’s principal objective is to allow Linux to run on Apple Silicon. This is the M1, M2, M3 chips that are proprietary to Apple, but based on ARM and not x86. They���re also (probably) eventually the only chips you will get in consumer grade Apple compute products. As we will see, the...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 016 Published: 11/02/2023 Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2023 Fighting Back Against AI Companies Harvesting Images Online With Nightshade Intel Thinks That ARM CPUs are NBD Cisco CVE With A Severity of 10 Remains An Active And Dangerous Threat Oxide Compute Receives $44M From Intel Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Journey To The Center Of AI Episode: 80 Published: 10/31/2023 How to AI AI has been in the headlines almost constantly for the last 18 months. But despite all that fanfare, ChatGPT���ing, and Faces being hugged; I have to admit that I still don���t know how it all works. Not that anyone really does, but beyond the prompt text I submit to a Chats GPT or Dalls ‘E’, I don���t know what is happening i...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 015 Published: 10/26/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/26/2023 Nvidia and AMD take to ARMs Unusual Job Openings Alert: Old Tech In Museums Is Breaking Down Patching Across the Universe Elon���s Plan Of Charging $1/year For Twitter To Defeat Bots Is Guaranteed To Fail Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Oxymoronic Business Intelligence Episode: 79 Published: 10/24/2023 What is Business Intelligence (BI)? When you hear someone say Business Intelligence? It���s probably that ���business intelligence��� is one of those famous contradictions in terms like ���jumbo shrimp��� or ���Congress in action.��� But in reality Business Intelligence is something we definitely know about, and are affected by, ev...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 014 Published: 10/19/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/19/2023 Microsoft Retiring NTLM FINALLY VBScript is also being removed from future Windows releases AI Can Be Useful: Reading Unopened Scrolls From Herculaneum With Computers AI Can Be Useful Two: Ebook Bugaloo You can find all the books on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or the Internet Archive DRAM and SSD Components About...

HashiConf 2023: A Private Preview Episode: 78 Published: 10/17/2023 Just Flew Back From HashiConf, And Boy Are My Tacos Tired HashiConf is (as the name strongly implies) the annual conference held by HashiCorp, creator of fine products like Terraform and a bunch of other things you might not have heard of. Ned attended the conference last week and is here to summarize the announcements around Vaul...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 013 Published: 10/12/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/12/2023 OpenAI is looking into making their own AI chips Like Crushing Water With Your Hands Multiple 3nm semiconductor processes failing to reach 50% viability Quantum-tunneling problems Adding RISC To Satellites��� but in a good way Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Living On The Edge Episode: 77 Published: 10/10/2023 Edge Field Day 2: The Edgening Last week, I attended Edge Field Day 2 remotely, and I wanted to share what I learned and the vendors who presented. In case you didn���t know, Edge Field Day is part of the Tech Field Day series of events put on my Gestalt IT. Other variations include Security Field Day, Cloud Field Day, and Mobility Field Day. Th...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 012 Published: 10/05/2023 Tech News of the Week for 10/05/2023 BlackBerry Stock Inches Up On Less Losses Apple Blames Everyone But Themselves For Issue They���ve Had for Years Net Neutrality Coming Back? Raspberry Pi 5 Released Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Under The Sea Cable Dance Episode: 76 Published: 10/03/2023 The World Is Interconnected. And That Interconnection Is Done Utilizing Long-ass Cables Last week we touched briefly on the OSI model of understanding the different layers of networking infrastructure. Ned, being right for once, pointed out that the model is a little, shall we say, fuzzy, on the difference (and the importance of separatin...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 011 Published: 9/28/2023 Tech News for the Week of 9/28/2023 The Writers Strike Might Be Over? Microsoft Earns the S3 Bucket of Shame on Azure Sony Hacked Again NFTs Are Even More Worthless Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

My Pet, Server Cow Episode: 75 Published: 9/26/2023 On the Efficacy of Analogy: Or Why Ned Shouldn���t Spend Three Hours Alone With His Thoughts Did I go for a three hour trail run this past weekend? Did I also forget to pack my earbuds? Are you about to reap the whirlwind? The answers to these questions all happen to be yes, so get in loser, we���re going on a philosophical adventure. Orange Juli...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 010 Published: 9/21/2023 Tech News for the Week of 9/21/2023 Web3 Adoption Could Come From Startups? Another Weird Conference Thing Is Happening In Philadelphia DevOps Days postponed Think Crypto Was Bad For The Environment? AI Says Hold My Alcoholic Containment Vessel MOVEit Breach From August Continues To Wreak Havoc Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 20...

ReiserFS In Decline Episode: 74 Published: 9/19/2023 ReiserFS filesystem is being deprecated in Linux ��� wait��� explain all of those words to me Well, ok, it���s not deprecated yet. It���s been marked ���obsolete.��� And it���s the end of a crazy tale that is a lot about technology in the early phases of Linux becoming mainstream, and also a liiiiiiiittle bit about, well. Let���s just say that t...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 009 Published: 9/14/2023 Tech News for the Week of 9/14/2023 Your Car Is Spying On You. Like, a Lot. TLS Must Stand For Totally Lacking Security An Interesting Tale of DevOps Gone Wrong The Back to Office Dominos Keep Falling Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Opposite Day With Advertising Company Google Episode: 73 Published: 9/12/2023 Advertising Company Google Poops In Your Sandbox It���s been a while since we really harped on the whole Advertising Company Google thing, and that���s because we���ve been busy watching Elon absolutely destroy what little good was in Twitter to begin with, observing Microsoft stomp the yard of infosec rakes so hard Side...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 008 Published: 9/7/2023 Tech News for the Week of 9/7/2023 US-EAST-1 Should Not Be The Default Newly AI Powered Instagram CGI Avatar Noonoouri Given Record Contract ���We Are The People��� by Empire of the Sun Are Self-Driving Cars Really That Bad? Facebook Floating Paid Model In EU After EU Continues To Be Tired Of Facebook���s Shit Facebook Average Revenue Per User has...

Spinning Rust Ain’t Dead Yet Episode: 72 Published: 9/5/2023 The Spinning Disk Hard Drive Is Dead; Long Live The Spinning Disk Hard Drive This month saw Samsung announcing some frankly absurd upcoming SSD products. Among them are a 256TB SSD and a PBSSD solution that encompasses, you guessed it, petabyte-sized SSD solutions. These are obviously future looking, and heavily based in the datacenter....

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 007 Published: 8/31/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/31/2023 When We Said Unlimited, We Didn���t Really Mean It Instacart Filing For IPO On The Back Of Creative Cost Savings In The Cloud Instacart���s IT staff published blog that explains in more detail Microsoft Revokes Retired Cert, Things Predictably Break Microsoft Announces Preview of Python Integration Into Excel I...

Exploring VMware, err, Explore Episode: 71 Published: 8/29/2023 Is VMware Still Relevant in 2023? Last week was VMware Explore 2023, formerly known as VMworld. The conference was renamed in 2022 for��� reasons? For those of a certain age, i.e. me, VMware was a pivotal (no pun intended) technology that transformed our use of compute, storage, and networking in the data center. We talked a bit about...