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

Tech News of the Week for 11/23/2023

Posted on Thursday, Nov 23, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

Microsoft turns on the Nitro Boost for Azure, Nvidia makes an even more expensiver GPU, and Nothing supports iMessage, sorta.

Tech News of the Week for 8/17/2023 [MTG005]

Posted on Thursday, Aug 17, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

HashiCorp goes BSL, Intel SGX is feeling vulnerable, and Microsoft Teams loves Windows For Workgroups.

Soapbox Engineering? [CL69]

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 15, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Chris helps to illuminate what the heck a Platform Engineer even is.

Tech News of the Week for 8/10/2023 [MTG004]

Posted on Thursday, Aug 10, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

DevOps goes local (to us), SEC demands faster disclosure on breaches, and Zoom stumbles into an AI brouhaha.

Honesty Is The Worst Policy [CL68]

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 8, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Ned walks us through Microsoft’s lost MSA Key and the ensuing disaster.

Tech News of the Week for 8/3/2023 [MTG003]

Posted on Thursday, Aug 3, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

AI is coming for your job, AWS is charging for IPv4, and FCC updates their broadband standards… to 2013.

Tech News of the Week for 7/20/2023 [MTG002]

Posted on Thursday, Jul 20, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

Broadcom lumbers towards VMware acquisition, InfluxDB deletes data, and Elon has more bad AIdeas.

Hyper Prologue Log [CL67]

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 18, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Chris introduces us to LogLog, SuperLogLog, and HyperLogLog. I swear these are real things.

Moar Tech Garbage [MTG001]

Posted on Thursday, Jul 13, 2023 | Series: Moar Tech Garbage

AI Still Sucks at FanFic, JumpCloud revokes all the API keys, and Threads is 100M strong.

Microaggressive Licensing [CL66]

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 11, 2023 | Series: Chaos Lever

Ned walks us through the RHEL licensing debacle with a historical perspective on Linux, GPLv2, and Red Hat.