With a large enough lever, you could move the world. Technology is that lever. Progress is the fulcrum. Where we go is up to us. Chaos Lever is a weekly, tech news podcast dedicated to tracking new and emerging trends in the enterprise IT landscape, and figuring out why they are terrible.

Chris Hayner

Chris Hayner

Ned Bellavance

Ned Bellavance

Latest Episode

More like VMwhere it's at? (Remixed and Remastered)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 21, 2024 | Series: Chaos Lever

REWIND: We take a moment to reflect on VMware’s past, present, and future given the Broadcom acquisition. Ned is furious about Chris’ distaste for cake. And we all agree WSL on Windows Server is silly.

Security Field Day with Forward Networks [CL83]

Posted on Tuesday, Nov 21, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Chris attended Security Field Day 10 remotely and was pretty impressed with Forward Networks and their digital twin tech.

Tech News of the Week for 11/16/2023 [MTG018]

Posted on Thursday, Nov 16, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

GitHub Copilot is the future of programming, Humane is less human than human, and RISC-V is poised to compete in the datacenter.

KubeCon Conversations [CL82]

Posted on Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Ned went to KubeCon 2023 and aside from falling into the Chicago River, he also had some interesting conversations.

Tech News of the Week for 11/09/2023 [MTG017]

Posted on Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

SBF is officially guilty, WeWork is almost officially bankrupt, and Nuclear Fusion is coming tomorrow! (Give or take 15 years.)

Hold My Asahi: Linux on the Mac [CL81]

Posted on Tuesday, Nov 7, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Chris thinks Apple’s hardware is peachy-keen, and would be even better if it ran Linux natively. Enter the Asahi project.

Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2023 [MTG016]

Posted on Thursday, Nov 2, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

Stopping AI from stealing your IP, Intel is dismissive of ARM desktops, and Cisco scores a 10 CVE (which is a bad thing).

Journey To The Center Of AI [CL80]

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 31, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Ned got curious about what sits behind the ChatGPT prompt and it turns out it’s like a lot. A lot of GPUs that is.

Tech News of the Week for 10/26/2023 [MTG015]

Posted on Thursday, Oct 26, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

Nvidia and AMD are teaming up, Elon wants your $1, and Voyager 2 gets patched.

Oxymoronic Business Intelligence [CL79]

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

In the spirit of Red October, Chris takes us on a tour of Business Intelligence vis a vis Sabermetrics.