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
Ned Bellavance
Latest Episode
Tracing the Origins Of Tech Terminology
Posted on Thursday, Apr 18, 2024 | Series: Chaos Lever
Ned and Chris explore the curious origins of everyday tech terms, like ‘download’ and ’log in,’ and how they became part of our digital lives.
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.
Thirty-Six GigaToasters [65]
Posted on Tuesday, Jul 4, 2023
Chris relays his experience at Security Field Day 9, Ned is amazed Yammer still exists, and we all lament the recent RHEL changes.
Just Disappointed [64]
Posted on Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023
Chris teams up with CISA to talk about Zero Trust in the government (no, not like that), Ned is pumped about the Aurora supercomputer, and Oregon does what New Jersey couldn’t.