Chaos Lever Podcast

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...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 006 Published: 8/24/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/24/2023 Mister Ethan Banks, my cohost for Day Two Cloud joins us for a slightly modified Tech News of the Week. Jetporch is the new Ansible Ubicloud is your cloud on BMaaS GCP offering 200Gb free egress SUSE is going private, again Bored Ape owners sue Sotheby, celebrities, and probably you ChatGPT hacked multiple time...

Software Licensing is BS…L Episode: 70 Published: 8/22/2023 HashiCorp Switches to BSL And I Hate Everyone and Everything Well, maybe not everyone. This week we decided to do a little crossover episode with my other podcast Day Two Cloud . My cohost from the D2C pod, Ethan Banks, joins me and Chris to discuss the latest licensing changes over at HashiCorp. Eight of those projects shifted to the Bus...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 005 Published: 8/17/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/17/2023 HashiCorp Switching to Business Source Licensing Intel CPUs found to be vulnerable to Downfall attack Other sources make it look easier Arm Poised to Go Over The Top With IPO Microsoft Teams has a lot of seemingly-antiquated requirements around setting up Teams and Channels Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavan...

Soapbox Engineering? Episode: 69 Published: 8/15/2023 Buzzword Bingo - Software Development Edition: Platform Engineering Gartner’s Platform Engineering Definition Platform Engineering not just another way to say DevOps Platform Engineering has been identified in the Innovation Trigger phase of the Gartner Hype Cycle since August of 2022 Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 004 Published: 8/10/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/10/2023 Local DevOps event happening soon - there���s still time to apply to present The SEC Demands Faster Breach Disclosure Zoom entering the Generative AI game, while also entering the ���appropriate your content to train Generative AI��� game First Room-Temp Superconductor Seems Suspect Intro and outro music by Ned...

Honesty Is The Worst Policy Episode: 68 Published: 8/8/2023 Microsoft: ���Honesty Is The Worst Policy��� There���s a critical flaw with the Power Platform Microsoft publishes two blogs detailing the malicious campaign of the Storm-0558 Group Microsoft expands cloud logging for Purview Audit to include premium level for all customers Wiz publishes blog claiming MSA key extends beyond OWA and outloo...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 003 Published: 8/3/2023 Tech News for the Week of 8/3/2023 How might AI take over Hollywood? Let us count the ways For a long time there have been foreign language versions of hollywood movies AWS Starts Charging for Public IPv4 Companies are setting up cloud services for private AI instances for quite the pretty penny FCC Updating Their Broadband Internet Standard to Ma...

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 002 Published: 7/20/2023 Tech News for the Week of 7/20/2023 Broadcom Moves One Step Closer To BroadWare Microsoft���s Acquisition of Activision is Finally, Finally, Probably, Happening InfluxDB Deletes Data Too Soon, Thinks People Read Their Emails Worthless Coward Elon Musk Thinks Another Company Is A good Idea Intro and outro music by Ned Bellavance copyright 2022

Hyper Prologue Log Episode: 67 Published: 7/18/2023 HyperLogLog - Just About The Greatest Name For An Algorithm That I Think Is Even Possible HyperLogLog A sorting visualizer in case this kind of thing is your bag, baby There���s a paper out there that proposes HyperLogLogLog HyperBitBit If you are truly curious, read this paper from Google Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

Moar Tech Garbage Episode: 001 Published: 7/13/2023 Tech News for the Week of 7/10/2023 AI Fails At Writing Gizmodo Stories, Because Of Course It Does JumpCloud Leaps Into Action Facebook Launches Twitter Clone - It���s Super Effective! Privacy Policy Comparison from Ars Technica IDC Says Public Cloud Is Winning The Race Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

Microaggressive Licensing Episode: 66 Published: 7/11/2023 Red Hat Open Source Ex-Pat Causes Big Spat Several prominent open-source people like Jeff Geerling have roundly denounced Red Hat���s latest licensing strategy The kernel was developed and is still maintained by Linus Torvalds GPLv2 license, which requires that derivative products made available to the public must also make their source co...

Thirty-Six GigaToasters Episode: 65 Published: 7/4/2023 Security Field Day 9 Wrap-Up Security Field Day 9 Home Page Noname Security Commvault Threatwise NetAlly CyberScope HashiCorp Boundary Cisco 4200 Firewalls Cribl Stream Lightning Round Microsoft Rebranding Yammer as Viva Engage Red Hat, Once Open Source���s Biggest Success Story, Continues To Turn It���s Back On The Movement Where Should You...

Just Disappointed Episode: 64 Published: 6/27/2023 CISA says to Federal agencies that they���re tired of these Monkey-Fighting security configuration aches, on these Monday to Friday management planes! Binding Operation Directive from CISA BrightTalk presentation that goes over the latest version (version 2.0) They have a ���Cyber Hygeine��� program that any given company can sign up for, for free...

Sometimes You���re The Problem Episode: 63 Published: 6/20/2023 OpenStack - or The Future That Almost Was and Somehow IS? The biggest complaints around running OpenStack An article by Jeffrey Burt on The Next Platform points out The OpenStack Big Tent Lightning Round Intel Dives Into Quantum Realm (again,) With 12 Qubit CPU Based on Old Tech Microsoft Overwhelmed By Massive DDoS MoveIt Supply Chai...