Chaos Lever Podcast

NIST double security with version 2.0, Fifteen Year Path to Profitability for Nutanix, White House declares war on C and C++, and more!

• NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 - Now with Double The Security
• Fifteen Year Path to Profitability
  • Must be all those Booth Babes on Ferris Wheels.
• White House Declares War on C and C++
• New Zealand is Gaslit on Leap Day

Explore the story of how 11 lines of code disrupted the internet, the battle between open-source ethics and corporate power, and the fragile nature of our digital world.

Technology, power, and unexpected consequences

In this episode, Ned and Chris take us through the dramatic story of a single code change that temporarily crippled the internet, emphasizing the delicate web of dependencies in software development. They explore the ethical dilemmas and power dynamics at play when open-source contributions clash with corporate interests. It's a revealing look at the unexpected consequences that arise from the interconnected nature of modern technology.

Highlights:

• (00:00) Introduction & parental clichés
• (02:48) A Story about the Internet's Past
• (06:02) The Incident of Breaking the Internet with 11 Lines of Code
• (07:45) JavaScript, Node.js, and the Impact of NPM Packages
• (10:44) The Complexity of Dependency and Package Management
• (15:37) The Dramatic Deletion of Left-Pad and Its Consequences
• (22:19) Where the NPM crisis came from
• (26:16) The Aftermath and Reflection on Modern Software Development
• (32:48) Closing Remarks

Links:

• Have you ever noticed how many times someone has allegedly broken the internet? One time, a dude actually did.
• Azer publicized the story, and what he did, on medium in a post called “I’ve Just Liberated My Modules.”

Google Does a Good Thing For a Change, ChatGPT Gets Weird, Walmart Making Moves to Grow Their Ad Business, and more!

• Google Does a Nice Thing
• Canada Attempts to Outlaw The Flipper Device To Stop Car Theft
• ChatGPT Creeps Everyone Out
  • What happened when someone asked it to compare two backpacks
• Advertising Continues Taking Over Everything And It’s Just The Saddest Thing

Ned and Chris discuss the supposedly uncertain future of cloud computing, reviewing recent CapEx and strategic shifts by leading providers, and speculating on AI’s impact on the future of technology.

Cloud Computing is Here to Stay

Ned sheds light on the reality behind the figures by digging into the growth strategies and market positions of top cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. He highlights the stark contrasts in spending between AWS and Microsoft, including the inconsistency between AWS's words and actions when they compare the company's public pronouncements on AI investments with its actual investments. Furthermore, Ned and Chris discuss the growing impact of AI on cloud computing's future, paying particular attention to Microsoft's forward approach with OpenAI.

Show Highlights:

(00:00) - Intro

(03:55) - Tackling rumors about the decline in public Cloud computing

(06:04) - Analysis of the growth trends of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud alongside the law of large numbers.

(13:09) - The logistical hurdles of scaling cloud infrastructure.

(15:09) - A look into variations in CapEx among the big three cloud providers

(21:50) - The increased durability of servers and its implications for cloud providers

(24:15) - The future impact of AI on cloud computing and Microsoft's early strategy with OpenAI.

(26:38) - Closing Remarks

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WOVCsnKYl637Pzd5-6Js01Fb-NRdFV4XbzyNVRQ1rWc/edit?usp=sharing

Links:

• In 2017, AWS had revenues of $12.2B, an increase of $4.3B from 2015
• The high level numbers for the big three
• A presentation from Broadcom that talked about their latest chips
• Microsoft FY24 Q2https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2024-q2/press-release-webcast
• Amazon FY23 Q4
• Alphabet FY23 Q4

ESXi Free is Dead, Cohesity is acquiring Veritas Data Protection, Forrest Brazeal Announces Kubernetes Resume Challenge, and Nginx is Being Forked Because Russia?!

• Nginx Being Forked Because Russia
• ESXi Free is Dead
  • Since the very early days of VMware, there has been a free version of ESX you could run in perpetuity without paying for a license.
• Forrest Brazeal Announces Kubernetes Resume Challenge
• Cohesity is acquiring Veritas Data Protection

Understanding the effects of cyber insurance on the ever-evolving landscape of digital threats

A Trip Through Cyber Risks

In a time when digital threats are bigger than Ned's love of Tim Tams, Ned and Chris discuss how the rules for cyber insurance have become more restrictive, requiring businesses to undergo audits and put in place particular cybersecurity measures to be eligible for coverage. As the digital world braces for impact, they discuss how these rules are changing, the financial effects, the strict checks, and the sometimes bizarre rules for policy payouts. Tune in to find out more!

Links Referenced:

• Cyber Insurance Underwriters Predicting a Long, Sad, Data Breach and Ransomware Attack filled 2024
• Swiss Re
• Slate article about the history of cyber insurance
• Delinea’s 2023 State of Cyber Insurance report
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chaos-lever/
• chaoslever.com

Weaveworks is calling it quits, USB Sticks decline in quality, Google is doing away with cached pages in Search, and Toothbrushes on the internet?!

• Weaveworks Winds to a Close
• Report Reveals Decline in Quality of USB Sticks and microSD Cards
• Cached Pages On Google Search Are Gone
• When Toothbrushes Attack: Don’t Put Everything On The Internet, Vol. 867
  • Follow-up reporting shows that the botnet wasn’t real

A look into Cloud Field Day 19 and SoftIron's trailblazing path in cloud technology through a fusion of custom hardware and software.

Cloud Field Day 19 & Softiron’s Cloud Revolution:

At Cloud Field Day 19, a showcase for the latest in tech innovation, Ned discovers SoftIron's novel approach to private cloud technology. He explains how SoftIron has built their product "from the ground up," examines the potential to revolutionize the VMware-dominated landscape, and highlights its appeal for government entities in need of stringent compliance. Beyond tech, Ned and Chris also discuss pressing debates, like which pizza size truly reigns supreme for flavor? Join us for a captivating journey into SoftIron's transformative effect on the cloud tech world.

Links:

• Get an in-depth look at the cutting-edge solutions presented at Cloud Field Day 19. Watch the vendor presentations here.
• Intrigued by SoftIron's approach to private cloud solutions? Dive deeper into their technology and offerings by visiting their official website.
• Other notable products at Cloud Field Day 19 include:
  • Broadcom Ultra Ethernet Consortium
  • Platform 9 Elastic Machine Pool product
  • Dell APEX Cloud Platform
• For the latest updates, insightful discussions, and more tech banter, follow us on our LinkedIn Chaos Lever Page.
• Don't miss out on any episodes! Visit our website at chaoslever.com

Elon Musk Ordered to Return Massive Tesla Compensation Package, RTO Does Nothing for Productivity, President Biden Vows to Veto Changes to SEC Breach Rules, and more!

• Elon Musk Ordered to Return Massive Tesla Compensation Package Due To Being a Liar
• Return to Office Does Nothing For Productivity
• Ivanti Connect Secure Determined To Be Too Flawed To Live By CISA
• SEC Breach Rules to Stay, For Now
  • Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure and such rules shall have no force or effect.”

Ned and Chris delve into how AI shapes the internet's transformation, discussing its profound effects on current challenges and the rise of user-focused, diverse application integrations for the future.

ARPANET to User-Centric Futures

Explore the impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made on the internet in this episode of Chaos Lever! Our hosts, Ned and Chris, discuss the internet's evolution from ARPANET roots to its present complexity, highlighting the shortcomings of its foundational protocols and the role of AI in both exacerbating and potentially rectifying these issues. Ned also explains how emerging technologies like the Rabbit R1 work, suggesting a shift towards AI-driven tools that prioritize user needs and integrate diverse applications.

• Origins (ARPANET and Early Days)
• Cory Doctorow and Enshittification
• Security Oversight in Protocols
• Changes in Internet Experience (BGP, Email, Social Media)

NYC passes law to limit AI discrimination, Google ditches egress charges (sorta), Someone compiled the Mother of All Breaches, and Cerabyte’s glass etching archives aim to replace tape for long-term storage.

• NYC passes Law Aiming To Limit AI Discrimination In Hiring- it’s Super Ineffective!
• Google Ditches Egress Pricing, Sorta
• Someone Combined PII From Thousands Of Data Breaches Into One Super Breach
• Tape Is Dead, Long Live Tape!

Ned and Chris explore the complexities of GitHub, examining version control systems and uncovering potential security risks in GitHub Actions and Workflows.

A Journey Through Code and Security

Explore the intricate world of GitHub, navigating the nuances of version control systems and the potential security risks lurking within. Our hosts, Ned and Chris, embark on a journey through the technicalities of Git and GitHub, discussing how these platforms have evolved over time and the challenges they present, especially in terms of security vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions and Workflows. Brace yourself for a captivating mix of light-hearted narratives and tech-savvy insights.

• Ever thought about what goes on behind the scenes in GitHub? Dive into this intriguing exploration of hacking GitHub Actions and Workflows. Perfect for the tech-curious! Nikita Stupin’s Deep Dive
• Wondering where the “git” monicker came from? Initial Commit has some insight for you. Why is it called git
• Check out this recent exposé on a major GitHub Actions exploit. It’s a real-world tech thriller featuring the widely-followed PyTorch project. Spotlight on GitHub's Vulnerability
• Join the journey into the world of PyTorch, a major player in neural networks with a massive following. PyTorch's GitHub Saga.
• Straight from the horse's mouth! GitHub offers a goldmine of tips to keep your actions and workflows secure. A must-read for every developer and code enthusiast. GitHub's Official Security Tips

Rock Band DLC ends, Updates on Class-Action suits involving Apple and Verizon, AI EVERYTHING on display at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show, and Astrobiotic’s lunar lander unfortunately did not land.

• Rock Band DLC Ends After 16 Years - https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/harmonix-is-ending-rock-band-dlc-releases-after-16-years-2800-songs/
• 7 Year Old Apple Class-Action Suit Finally Paying out - https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-sends-checks-for-iphone-batterygate-lawsuit-settlement-payments-2024-1
• Verizon Wireless is announcing a Class-Action class related to shady fees being tacked on to cell-phone bills - https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/open-lawsuit-settlements/verizon-administrative-fees-100m-class-action-settlement/#:~:text=A%20settlement%20has%20been%20reached%20in%20a%20class,certain%20fees%20in%20its%20postpaid%20wireless%20service%20plans.
• Astrobiotic’s Moon Shot Falls Short - https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/17/astrobotics-lunar-lander-will-burn-up-in-earths-atmosphere-tomorrow/
• CES 2024 Wrapped Up This Week, And Boy Did It Sure Happen - https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/13/24035152/ces-generative-ai-hype-robots

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Episode: 89 Published: 1/18/2024

Ned and Chris are at it again in the latest Chaos Lever episode, serving up their unique blend of tech expertise and uproarious humor! This time around, they’re tackling the big shake-up in the virtualization world ��� the aftermath of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. The duo dissect how these changes impact different business scales, from SMBs to large enterprises, providing actionable insights and practical strategies. If you’re grappling with decisions about virtualization, cloud migration, or seeking alternatives to VMware, this episode is your goldmine.

• Small and Medium sized Businesses are already running on shoe-string budgets, so moving away from VMware will be more cost effective for many
• If you are an SMB who is looking to replace your vSphere cluster with another solution, then I���d say Proxmox or xcp-ng would be your best bets for something almost free
• For enterprises, migrating to a different platform is going to be incredibly expensive, time consuming, and ultimately provide very little in short term business value
• Taking on a massive migration effort across 100 VMware clusters is probably going to be a quagmire from which your career never fully recovers, just look at the long trail of failed ERP migrations.
• Who are the alternatives in the world of VMware? Here���s our list:
  • Nutanix
  • Hyper-V
  • Proxmox
  • xcp-ng
  • oVirt
  • OpenStack
• If you���d like to see even more opinions on VMware alternatives, check out this Reddit discussion.

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Episode: 023 Published: 1/16/2024

AI versions of people are upsetting the internet, HPE and Cisco are making some interesting acquisitions, and Wifi 7 is here, but will it live up to its theoretical specs?

• People Are Creating AI Versions of People, and People Are Pissed
• HPE Acquiring Juniper to Enhance Their AI Networking Chops
• Wifi 7 is Here, And Boy is My Router Tired
• Cisco acquiring Isovalent for eBPF Expertise

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Episode: 88 Published: 1/11/2024

With their impeccable track record of defying the odds and predicting upcoming events in the tech landscape, Ned and Chris once again place their metaphorical bets on the top tech news for 2024. Coming up, they predict various acquisitions, a legal reckoning for AI from none other than Mickey Mouse himself, and increased interest in joining the Metaverse. Will AI be stopped by copyright lawsuits? What will happen in the public cloud space? Ned and Chris have answers. Whether they���re accurate answers or not, well, you���ll just have to follow the show in 2024 to find out!

• Wait a minute - Nostradamus said it was impossible to assign a date & time to a prediction?
• The WebAssembly Component model
• Projected 2023 revenue for Cloudflare
• Digital Realty���s growth rate in 2023
• Equinix���s growth rate in 2023
• The RISC-V industry group
• A twitter thread outlining AI copyright infringement
• A recap of AI���s breakout year
• Apple is boosting the Metaverse���s headway
• Did you know Roblox has a VR component?
• An update on PCle 6.0

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Episode: 87 Published: 1/4/2024

In this special episode of Chaos Lever, Chris and Ned sit down to review their predictions for 2023 to see if they have proven to be accurate, or at least amusing. Ned provides compelling evidence for why most of his predictions were somewhat correct, although Chris challenges some of his results. Chris also shares headlines and data to support his claims, though ultimately, both aspiring prognosticators have to compare their abilities to the legend himself: Nostradamus.

• The top 15 outages of 2023
• The annual outage report for 2023 from Uptime Intelligence
• CXL has not been widely adopted by the major cloud providers yet
• The mysterious new CEO of Twitter
• Elon Musk���s latest message to advertisers on X
• Growth (or lack thereof) stats for AWS in 2023
• Growth (or lack thereof) stats for Azure in 2023
• The interest in ���supercloud��� seems to have died down
• Is Platform Engineering crushing DevOps as Ned predicted?
• BlueVoyant���s report on supply chain security breaches
• Linda Yaccarino���s recent cryptic and cringey tweet
• Forbes is excited about passkeys
• Microsoft is making a big push to move passwordless forward
• Chris was right, regulations ARE coming to AI
• FTX���s infamous co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried���s testimony was… enlightening
• Did Nostradamus get it right about boiling fish in the Black Sea? Maybe?
• What about Nostradamus��� prediction for a ���celestial fire on the royal edifice���?

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Episode: 86 Published: 12/21/2023

It���s the shake-up of the century, or at least… it���s pretty big news. It seems that pretty soon, non-Apple devices will be able to support iMessage technology. So how is this even possible? In order to answer that question, Ned walks us through the history of text messaging technology, from SMS to BBM to MMS and beyond. If you���ve ever wondered if phone carriers have been ripping you off, or providing sub-standard security, spoiler alert: you���re right.

• The signaling channel behind SMS technology
• Wait, we send an average of how many texts per day?
• The infamous text fee hike of the mid-aughts
• BlackBerry Messenger���s origins
• What actually is RCS technology?
• How Beeper Mini accesses iMessage technology on non-Apple devices

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Episode: 022 Published: 12/19/2023

Google loses monopoly case, but Google Fiber will be offering a 20Gbps symmetrical speed service for $250 per month, the Okta security breach is worse than everyone thought, and VMWare is discontinuing their perpetual licensing.

• Advertising Company Google Loses Monopoly Case Around App Store
• 20Gbps For A Mere $250 Per Month
• Okta Breach Severity Severely Upgraded
• Say Goodbye To Perpetual Licensing VMware Customers

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Episode: 85 Published: 12/07/2023

What is IT security, and why should you care? As Chris explains in this episode, IT security in the IoT affects us all - especially if you own a smart TV. That���s right, four years ago a major vulnerability was reported in the technology used to cast media from one device to a smart TV. Four years later, it���s only now being publicly revealed and even worse, most of the devices affected have still not been updated. This means you could be the victim of a RickRolling right in your very own living room (or worse)! Oh yeah, and if you���re still wondering what a vulnerability is, we cover that in the episode too.

• What is DIAL technology?
• Security threat findings are published at Black Hat���s Middle East and Africa Conference four years later

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Episode: 021 Published: 12/12/2023

• Quantum Modular Computing from IBM
• 23AndMe Attack Just Went From Bad To Worse
• Amazon Q is like pretty bad
• Advertising Company Google Announces AI-Powered Upgrade to GMail���s Spam Filters

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Episode: 84 Published: 12/07/2023

There���s a lot of players involved in the latest card shuffle over at OpenAI, and it���s no wonder this mess is making headlines. It���s not every week you see a CEO ousted, hired by Microsoft, and then hired back by their previous company who then replaces their entire board. So how did this happen? Is it just an example of pure human blundering? Is it proof of some hidden puppet-master organization pulling the strings at OpenAI? Or is it the somewhat predictable fallout of OpenAI���s changing corporate structure? Tune in to find out!

• I have no idea what Venngage does, but they sure did create a handy dandy timeline of these events
• According to OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired for not being consistently candid in his communications with the board
• How Microsoft got involved in this mess in the first place, to the tune of one billion dollars
• Meet the new board members at OpenAI

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Episode: 020 Published: 12/5/2023

• Actually Employing People To Write Content Is For Losers, Skinflint Publishers Continue To Try To Say
• DevTernity Canceled After Faking Diversity
• Disturbing Reports Surfacing About Advertising Company Google���s Drive Service Losing User Files
• Maybe Robotaxis Aren���t Doing That Great

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Episode: 019 Published: 11/23/2023

• Microsoft Brings a Nitro Boost to Azure
• NVIDIAs Insanely Expensive AI Chips About To Get Expensiver
• Rackspace���s $11 Million Mistake
• I Was GOING To Complain About TikTok, But NOW I Have To Complain About Nothing
  • Apple is dipping their toe into the open-standard RCS protocol

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Episode: 83 Published: 11/21/2023

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.com/event/xfd10/ as well as through a handy-dandy twitter hashtag, #XFD10.

Forward Networks was one of the presenters, and they leverage the concept of digital twins to create highly detailed network models that allow for deep analysis, troubleshooting, prediction of network behavior, and verification of network security policies. Chris was pretty impressed and went digging into the details for more information.

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Episode: 018 Published: 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

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Episode: 82 Published: 11/14/2023

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 Labs - Open source project for simplified K8s deployments
• Teleport - Open source project to provide remote access to servers, K8s clusters, and databases
• Chkk - New startup focused on improving K8s security and availability and making upgrades less risky
• Venafi - Focused on being a control plane for machine identity
• Wing - New programming language for the cloud

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Episode: 017 Published: 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

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Episode: 81 Published: 11/07/2023

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, these chips are amazing. They���re also firmly planted in Apple���s walled garden. Asahi Linux aims to democratize the awesome but monopolized hardware platform and let you run Linux, instead of just OSX.

• Apple’s chip architectures are so profoundly different that it is hard to compare them in an apples-to-apples manner.
• Linus Torvalds himself said in 2020 that he���d love to use the hardware to run linux
• But the project is getting attention and support from major distros- most recently Fedora
• Just this past week, the Asahi team reported a bug that could leave hardware in a ���difficult to recover��� state due to changes made to OSX
• The installation instructions are helpfully available on the Asahi webpage
• The flagship version going forward will be Fedora Remix

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Episode: 016 Published: 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

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Episode: 80 Published: 10/31/2023

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 in the background. What is the software stack powering GPT 4? What type of operating system, orchestrator, and applications allow for the massive training models behind OpenAI? And what about the hardware? I know there���s a lot of GPUs, but there���s got to be more to it than that. I decided to dig into some of these layers to try and trace from the prompt down to the physical servers, and you get to come with me. So get in loser, we���re going to learn how to AI.

• I bet OpenAI has published something about their stack… sorta
• According to a post from 2016, OpenAI was using Python, TensorFlow, Numpy, Keras, and Anaconda
• TensorFlow is a machine learning library with APIs available for Python and C++
• Numpy is a Python package developed to support scientific computing
• Flyte, a graduated project from the Linux Foundation that leverages Kubernetes
• Nvidia H100 Spec Sheet
• DGX SuperPod
• Tensor Cores and CUDA cores, what is the difference?
• Nvidia helpfully posted some example code using the cuDNN library
• The Infiniband standard is a different protocol than Ethernet
• Ultra Ethernet Consortium is focused on developing an open standard that meets or exceeds what Infiniband does today
• Remember when Crypto was using as much power as the country of Argentina
• AI is already on pace to match that by 2027
• Microsoft���s AI for Beginners site to get down some of the terminology and lab time
• You may also want to take a beginner course on Python

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Episode: 015 Published: 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

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Episode: 79 Published: 10/24/2023

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, every single day. Surely you���ve heard of the term ���data driven economy?��� That���s the end result of an entire society analyzing, and in some way or another, monetizing, data. At its core, that���s all Business Intelligence is. The idea that you can take data, analyze it, either alone or in a population of other data with varying degrees of relatedness, and come up with new, actionable, insights

• It was first formalized as a concept in 1865
• Target being able to identify households with people who are pregnant
• UPS has been using a BI system called ORION to fine-tune all aspects of their supply chain for the past 6 years

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Episode: 014 Published: 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 To Get More Expensiver

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Episode: 78 Published: 10/17/2023

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 Vault, Nomad, Waypoint, Terraform, and other products.

• Their software has been rebranded Vault Radar and is now available as an early access product in HCP Vault
• They���ve now reworked Waypoint to be less opinionated
• There are two big additions in Terraform: testing and stacks

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Episode: 013 Published: 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

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Episode: 77 Published: 10/10/2023

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.

The vendors that present at these events are focused on the theme of the field day and how their solutions tackle the unique challenges of that theme. As implied by the name, Edge Field Day is focused on Edge computing. And this is only the second iteration, implying that Edge is a relatively new topic.

• Edge Field Day 2 Page
• Rountable Discussion
• StorMagic
• Solidigm
• NodeWeaver

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Episode: 012 Published: 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

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Episode: 76 Published: 10/03/2023

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 separating) some of the layers.

One thing he didn���t mention is that the OSI model is not the only model that describes networking, and that some, like the TCP model actually only has 4 layers, combining the 7 in OSI (Ed.- I did mention this, but apparently someone wasn’t paying attention). In any case, it got me to thinking; considering the cloud-first world that we live in now��� how many people really know how the lowest layers of any model work. How the hell does my computer connect to your computer, like, physically?

The answer? Mostly, long-ass cables in the ocean.

• Long Ass Cables
• Sadly no-longer-updated summary blog post about undersea cables
• Paul Barford put together a comprehensive map of just the overland and underground cables in the United States
• Well there are actually a healthy amount of discrete cables going the 4,000-odd miles from basically NYC to Europe
• The incidents in 2008 ended up knocking several countries completely offline until traffic was able to be rerouted
• During WWI, Britain cut all but one of Germany���s undersea telegraph lines, and tapped the last remaining one
• Suspicions of Russian submarines cutting undersea cables as recently as last yea
• Microsoft/Facebook-owned MAREA cable

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Episode: 011 Published: 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

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Episode: 75 Published: 9/26/2023

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 Julius optional.

The realm of information technology is littered with analogies and models. And that���s in large part because the actual implementation of tech involves a lot of foreign concepts and ideas to the lay-person, so to ease them into the hellscape of modern IT, we use cozy analogies like a warm electric blanket, and models to pretend there���s some kind of structure in the churning morass of technobabble.

Analogies are incredibly useful for understanding unfamiliar things, but they do have limitations. There is generally no perfect analogy, and once you apply stress, you���ll see where the cracks and faults lie, just like a circuit board that operates under inhospitable conditions. Connections are faulty, logic stops flowing from one contact to another, and I dunno some third thing about how capacitors are catalysts for change. Oh wait, did I just stretch an analogy about analogies using a circuit board analogy that failed under stress? Goddammit I���m good.

So, I thought we could look at two classic models and analogies in IT and discuss a little about where they succeed, where they fail, and examine why sometimes you just have to come to things on their own terms.

• OSI Model
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad Review
• The Phoenix Project
• Arrested DevOps Podcast with Adam Jacobs

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Episode: 010 Published: 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

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Episode: 74 Published: 9/19/2023

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 there was some ���unpleasantness��� surrounding the namesake of the filesystem that greatly contributed to its downfall. But we���ll get to that.

• Lets start with some Linux filesystems
• 1992 saw the release of Windows 3.1

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Episode: 009 Published: 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

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Episode: 73 Published: 9/12/2023

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 Sideshow Bob would be impressed, and of course complaining about kids these days and their AI web3 NFT drones. Or something.

But believe it or not, Google is still a gigantic company worth $1.72T, and the vast majority of their revenue and most of their profit comes from selling ads. Hence the moniker Advertising Company Google. Now that���s exhausting to type and say every time, so I���m just going to shorten it to Google, with the understanding that advertising company is implied. Savvy? Excellent.

• What are Third-party Cookies
• Google rolls out privacy sandbox
• Antique Spoon Collectors Anonymous
• Everybody Hates FLoC
• Topics API ain’t much better
• Try Vivaldi if you must use Chromium
• Disable Third-party Cookies in Chrome

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Episode: 008 Published: 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 been pretty steady

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Episode: 72 Published: 9/5/2023

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. Not addressed at the event is why a consumer would want or need that kind of storage, nor the fact that the market barely has any options for said consumers at 4TB, let alone larger. Still, in the enterprise this is big news, and announcements like it have lead companies such as Pure Storage to announce the effective end of HDDs, or, in parlance, spinning rust, as soon as 2028.

• 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
• IBM announced a TS1170 tape that handles 50TB native at an IO rate of 400mb/s
• The LTO Ultrium Roadmap has a 576TB native tape listed in just 5 more generations

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Episode: 007 Published: 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

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Episode: 71 Published: 8/29/2023

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 VMware the company when the Broadcom acquisition was announced, but I thought it would be interesting to revisit the company and pontificate on its future.

• VMworld history
• Broadcom acquisition
• UK approval
• SiliconANGLE analysis
• VMware Explore News Summary

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Episode: 006 Published: 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 times at DefCon
• Driverless cars drive fearlessly into wet pavement
• Fun update in the ���did generative AI use copyrighted works in their training?

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Episode: 70 Published: 8/22/2023

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 Business Source License with a simple code commit.
• The FAQs do address some of the questions
• OpenTF Manifesto
• Terraform is Dead?
• A very thoughtful piece from Yehuda Cohen that makes some predictions

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Episode: 005 Published: 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

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Episode: 69 Published: 8/15/2023

• 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

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Episode: 004 Published: 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

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Episode: 68 Published: 8/8/2023

• 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 outlook.com
• Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon writes a formal letter of complaint to CISA, the AG, and the FTC accusing Microsoft of gross negligence
• Microsoft spokesperson contacted by the Register

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Episode: 003 Published: 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 Match Reality

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Episode: 002 Published: 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

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Episode: 67 Published: 7/18/2023

• 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

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Episode: 001 Published: 7/13/2023

• 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

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Episode: 66 Published: 7/11/2023

• 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 code freely available on request
• JBoss, CoreOS, Gluster, and StackRox all have their source code freely available
• IBM spent $34B to acquire Red Hat
• Seriously, from 2012 to 2022, IBM had four, FOUR quarters of growth
• Revenue decreased every year from 2011 to 2020
• Red Hat conducted layoffs of about 4% of their workforce
• Community Enterprise Operating System Linux, commonly known as CentOS was a distribution of Linux based on the upstream of RHEL
• June of 2023 they made the decision to remove the public GitLab repos hosting the RHEL source code
• Mark McGrath, published a follow up blog post attempting to justify the change

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Episode: 65 Published: 7/4/2023

• Security Field Day 9 Home Page
• Noname Security
• Commvault Threatwise
• NetAlly CyberScope
• HashiCorp Boundary
• Cisco 4200 Firewalls
• Cribl Stream

• 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 Park Your Domain After Google Domains Selloff?
• ChatGPT Can Now Use A Browser To Get Data Newer Than 2021
• School District Teaches Kids About Hacking Interactively
• Micron To Introduce New GDDR7 Memory Chips By July 2024

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Episode: 64 Published: 6/27/2023

• 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
• Censys put out their 2023 State of the Internet report and quoted a number of 8,000 public facing misconfigurations
• Google auto-enrolled 150 million users in MFA, it saw a 50% decline in accounts being compromised
• Okta reported that their logins saw 2/3rds of users using MFA, along with 90% of Administrators

• Advertising Company Google Fails To Bing Irony
• Oregon Finally Gives In And Legalizes ��� Pumping Your Own Gas
• Sometimes We Can Have Nice Things
• Softbank Just Can���t Stop Not Stopping- er, I mean.. Losing Money
• DuckDuckGo Developers Remember Windows Is Still A Thing
• 4 nm process created for new Snapdragon processor, confounding physics just because

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Episode: 63 Published: 6/20/2023

• The biggest complaints around running OpenStack
• An article by Jeffrey Burt on The Next Platform points out
• The OpenStack Big Tent

• Intel Dives Into Quantum Realm (again,) With 12 Qubit CPU Based on Old Tech
• Microsoft Overwhelmed By Massive DDoS
• MoveIt Supply Chain Hack Keeps Collecting New Victims - This Time It���s the Energy Dep���t
• Major AWS Outage in US-EAST-1 Shows People Still Haven���t Moved
  • First we had the great S3 outage of 2017. Then the DNS and network storm of 2021
• Creative New Way Hackers Are Trying To Be Awful: Pretending To Be Security Researchers
• Google Domains Is The Latest Killed By Google Victim, Sorta

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Episode: 62 Published: 6/13/2023

• The antikythera mechanism
• These computers were actual human beings
• They were called knocker-uppers
• Hyperautomation defined by Gartner

• Lotus Eaters Continue To Bask In The Glory Of Domino
• Barracuda Announces The Worst Security Breach of the Year- So Far
• Fake Cryptocurrency Scam Sites Pervade The Web
• Timewasting Site Of The Moment Reddit Seems Content To Plan Its Own Destruction
• EU Is Leading The Way With Legislation Again
• Stack Overflow volunteer moderators down tools over secret new policy that obstructs removal of AI-generated content

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Episode: 61 Published: 6/6/2023

• Cloud Field Day 17 in beautiful Boston, MA
• HYCU is focus on SaaS backup
• RackN orchestrates bare-metal infrastructure
• Couchbase offers managed DBaaS in multiple clouds

• Microsoft Announces Cortana Taking A Backseat In Windows UI
• Google Cloud is sending friend requests to AWS and Azure
• Def Con Attendees Will Have An Opportunity To Hack A Real Satellite- In Space
• Azure DevOps Outage Proves That Typing Is Still Hard
• Patent Trolls Trying To Change Patent Rules To Make The System Worse
• Dude, It���s Not A Dell

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Episode: 60 Published: 5/30/2023

• At IBM���s Think event earlier this year, they created the new brand of watsonx
• Sign Up Page for Ansible Lightspeed
• Based on a cursory reading of their documentation, Red Hat AI is a rebranding exercise
• AI was splashed all over every product in Microsoft���s portfolio
• You could just watch a keynote summarization video that condenses three hours down to about 10 minutes
• Dell and Nvidia are collaborating on Project Helix

• Massive data leak shows Teslas are way more dangerous than even I thought
  • Tesla miscategorizing employee injuries in order to keep their reported numbers low
• Windows XP Activation Algorithm Cracked
• Microsoft makes Azure Linux generally available
• Mandatory 2FA Coming to PyPI Maintainers
• Lawyer tries to use ChatGPT for filing; hilarity ensues
• Cloud Field Day 17 Is Coming To Boston

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Episode: 59 Published: 5/23/2023

• There were at least 333 scheduled events coverint 25 discrete topics that took place at RSA 2023
• Some of the topics and sessions from RSA 2023 are starting to be available on YouTube
• The Simple Yet Lethal Anatomy of a Software Supply Chain Attack

• EU Does Their Best Dr. Evil To The Tune Of $1.3B
• Lawsuit Alleges DoorDash Charges iPhone Users Higher Prices
  • Back in 2021 the British government called out airlines for charging Mac users more
• Raspberry Pi Drought Over By Q3
  • Check out the whole video interview if you have some time
• Google Registry Releases New Vanity TLDs, Some Of Which Are Ripe For Abuse
• Move Over Shadow IT, Here Comes Shadow GPT
• Intel Releases Whitepaper Suggesting That Future CPUs Will Be 64 Bit Only

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Episode: 58 Published: 5/16/2023

• WiFi 7 Standard
• 802.11 Standards in general
• WiFi 7 Overview
• TP-Link WiFi 7

• Google Still Struggling To Recover From Zone Outage In Paris
• A Shocking New Attack Overpowers Servers Literally
• Microsoft-Activision merger Approved By EU
• Microsoft Signs On to Make Datacenter Fusion a Reality
  • YouTube video from Real Engineering
• Elon Announces New CEO- And It���s Not Sheryl Sandberg
• Turns Out Copying Other People���s Stuff Willy-Nilly Might Be Illegal

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Episode: 57 Published: 5/9/2023

• Can GPT4 replaces writers?
• ChatGPT has given better results than humans to people asking medical questions to a hospital help chat
• Deep Learning famously helped epidemiologists with reading lab results and detecting breast cancer
• That time scientists beat a computer that was literally the best in the world at Go by playing Go extremely stupidly
• There are people who are using AI and deepfakes to trick users into giving up secrets
• Creatively prompting ChatGPT to write undetectable malware
• The current head of the FTC has made it clear that she���s for it as well

• Why have a monopoly when a duopoly sounds so much nicer?
• Amazon Prime Moves From Microservices To Monolith Architecture, World Doesn���t End
• Everything is Bigger in Texas, even Ransomware
• On Worldwide Password Day, Everyone Wants You To Stop Using Passwords
• You guys, I Promise I Won���t Completely Dismantle VMware. Honest!
• Google And Apple Unite To Help Stop Stalkers

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Episode: 56 Published: 5/2/2023

• IPv5 was a failed attempt to support voice over IP at the protocol layer
• According to Google, 43% of traffic was using IPv6
• Bahrain and India top out the countries adopting IPv6 at 100% and 67.5% respectively
• RIPE labs IPv6 report indicates that IPv6 readiness and usage actually dropped in the last year
• AWS announced general availability of IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
• Calico, for example, supports IPv6 only

• ChatGPT Continues To Generate Both Positive And Negative Publicity
  • ChatGPT has been working to allow users to opt out of letting inputs be used for further training
• The Last Version of Windows Gets Its Last Feature Update
• Elon Musk Proposes New Twitter Feature: Micropayments To Read News Articles
• Quantum May Be Coming For Your Crypto, But Not Just Yet
• Microsoft Pivots, Announces Support For a Right To Repair Bill
• Advertising Company Google Turns a Profit On Something That���s Not Advertising

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Episode: 55 Published: 4/25/2023

• 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

• Cloud Outage Insurance is a Real Thing You Should Probably Have
• Microsoft to Change Functionality of Print Screen Button to Just Open The Snipping Tool
• Bard AI Sings a Song of Misery and Woe
• Cold Fusion- er, I mean, Sodium-Ion Batteries, Set To Make It To Production Soon
• Used Routers Provide a Path To Company Secrets
• Facebook Settles Privacy Violation Class Action Suit for $725 Million

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Episode: 54 Published: 4/18/2023

• Flexera releases its state of the cloud report
• Andy Jassy’s Stockholder Letter

• Google CEO Warns About Unknown Impacts Of AI, Pitches Some Decent Ideas
• CodeWhisperer is the Creepiest AWS Product Name Yet
• Qualcomm Designing new iSIM, Meant To Replace eSIMs, Which I Didn���t Know Needed Replacing
• Alas Intel Server, I Barely Knew Ye
• Apple���s India iPhone Plants Put Together $7 Billion Dollars Worth Of Phones Last Year
• Here I Am King of all Koopa and Emperor of IBM
• Check out episode 26 of Chaos Lever

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Episode: 53 Published: 4/11/2023

• Updated API Security Top 10 List
• According to HackerOne, after websites themselves, APIs are the number two attack vector on the internet
• In November of last year, Twitter was hacked utilizing an API vulnerability that was only feasible using automation

• Product that lets you open your garage door over the internet ��� you guessed it
• TikTok Bill Forgets to Mention TikTok
• Privacy nightmares continue to rain down in a country with few meaningful privacy laws
  • Tesla got dinged for- wait for it- privately and illegally accessing drivers vehicle videos
  • an online alcohol recovery company called Monument admitted to sharing personally identifiable data with advertisers
• Datacenters are going nuclear!
  • The first one was approved this year and won���t be in operation until 2029
• Samsung engineers shared top secret data and source code with ChatGPT
• Operation Cookie Monster is a real thing and InfoSec Professionals are Children

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Episode: 52 Published: 4/4/2023

• A.I. is B.S. by Adam Conover
• Forrest Brazeal has a think about AI
• Ben Thompson on AI
• Heavy Strategy: ChatGPT is coming for your job
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
• Moratorium on LLM and AI development

• Microsoft announces a new Teams client with a LOT of AI
• WiFi Standards Aren���t Standard Enough
• The Humble Barcode celebrates it���s 50th birthday
• Will Magnon Enter Our Lexicon?
• Colorado considering striking down laws that prohibit community broadband
• UK May Block Broadcom Takeover of VMware

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Episode: 51 Published: 3/28/2023

• Panera Bread announced that they are rolling out biometric identification system as a part of their loyalty program
• Windows Hello was hacked back in 2021 with security researchers being able to fake a USB camera, feed Hello an image, and get Hello to unlock
• Amazon is closing the Go at a pace
• Amazon was also sued in New York City for inadequately informing customers of just how much surveillance goes on in there
• In 2021 a report came out showing that Amazon had no real security policy to speak of, and that all customer data was basically available to everyone inside the company
• There are many pages out there that list Amazon���s myriad failures to protect customer data

• Even Consultants Get the Blues
• For the millionth time, we don���t have to change passwords every 90 days
• Look MA, the FTC is doing something good!
• TikTok CEO testifies to Congress: Everyone ends up looking bad
• Creator of the first Ethernet, Robert Metcalfe wins Turing Award
• CISA releases weirdly named tool to help investigate possible Microsoft 365 breaches

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Episode: 50 Published: 3/21/2023

• Ransomware had what Tech Target calls a breakout year in 2022
• Set of best practices for home network security from the NSA

• FinTech is hard enough for humans to understand - lets bring in AI!
• Encryption at rest? Bah, try encryption in-use.
• Government is trying to ban TikTok again.. EFF is actually against it
• Samsung Exynos is extra insecure
• Rolls-Royce to build moon based nuclear reactor
• Hands are the hardest thing to draw? Midjourney says, ���Hold my beer.���

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Episode: 49 Published: 3/14/2023

• The actual strategy document
• More on DIDs from episode 26
• We have known for years that it���s humans that make up the biggest risk to any of these systems

• We are not going to cover SVB
• United Kingdom���s Online Safety Bill Set To Completely Destroy Security And Privacy Online
• Advertising Company Google Killer Reader 10 Years Ago
• Facebook Developing A Mastadon-like Social Network To Take On Twitter
• GitHub will require 2FA on all accounts by year-end
• After 6 Year Absence, Go Is A Top 10 Language Again

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Episode: 48 Published: 3/7/2023

• The Cost of Cloud, A Trillion Dollar Paradox
• AWS growth rate from statista
• GCP has slowing growth over increasing revenue since at least 2017
• Starting with Equinix, their revenue is a comparatively tiny $7.26B for 2022
• Digital Realty revenue in 2022 was $4.69B and their growth is actually shrinking over the last two years
• HPE has seen annual growth of about 3% for the last two years
• Charles Fitzgerald over on Platfornomics came to the same conclusion about cloud repatriation

• AWS Changes to Billing and Cost Management Permissions Taking Effect Both Yesterday, And Also in July
• Need K8s Native Storage? Akamai is Ondat.
• Elon Musk Chose Not To Pay His AWS Bill, Hilarity Ensues
• Software Providers May Be Held Liable for Bad Cybersecurity
• Attack Vector for Major LastPass Breach Identified As An Unpatched Plex Server
• Mobile Web Congress? More like Metaverse Web Congress.

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Episode: 47 Published: 2/28/2023

• Ubuntu pushing out flatpak
• Snap, while ostensibly open source, is completely controlled by Canonical
• Canonical is pushing their own product even harder by strongarming other Ubuntu-based distributions into not providing flatpak by default
• Ubuntu has actually lost mindshare over the past decade

• You Suck. Pay Me.
• Copyright Office Backtracks On Allowing AI-Generated Art To Be Protected
  • Zarya of the Dawn
• Lying Liars Xfinity Continue To Lie
• Justice Department Alleges Advertising Company Google Destroyed Records Relating To Anti-Trust Lawsuit
• Broadcom Acquisition Date for VMware Extended
• GCC Project To Frontend Rust Compilation Back On Track After A Hiatus

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Episode: 46 Published: 2/21/2023

• An example calculator application only has four dependencies listed in its package.json file
• We���re looking at about 200 required modules to build K8s
• Log4shell, in particular, forced developers to evaluate hundreds or thousands of applications
• The organization that has worked to define what is included in an SBOM is the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
• The NTIA defines an SBOM at an abstract level
• There are upsides and downsides to both source-code and binary analysis and you can check out an excellent post by Andrew Hoog

• Turns Out, Microsoft���s AI Was Just As Bad As Google���s
• Web3 Continues to Go Great
• Just a reminder that it���s not just Twitter. Elon Musk is still failing at running Tesla, too
• But Also Elon Musk Is Terrible With Twitter Too
• The February updates to Windows Server 2022 ��� Break Windows Server 2022
• Amazon Employees Tasked with Mandatory Fun
  • Clearly Jassy is concerned about the slowing growth of Amazon in 2022, where they eked out a slim 9.4% increase over the previous year

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Episode: 45 Published: 2/14/2023

• Talking to AI Might Be the Most Important Skill of This Century
• Mens Journal started using AI to create articles. They contained ���serious errors and plagiarism,��� forcing an embarrassing retraction
• We literally still don���t understand human self-awareness, either philosophically or neurologically
• Watson also never made a profit

• Ned Proves Prescient Again, RISC-V Port to Xen
  • If you���re a C developer, they���re looking for help.
• Microsoft Announces ChatGPTified Bing With Many Breathless Hyperboles
• Advertising Company Google Announces Bard, Stock Dips Immediately
• Microsoft To Replace Their Homegrown PDF Reader In Edge With Adobe
• Cloudflare Announces Mastodon Server Offering Just In Time For No One To Care
• AMD Expects To Continue ���Undershipping��� To Keep Prices High On CPUs and GPUs

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Episode: 44 Published: 2/7/2023

• A good example provided by Stamford of RISC vs. CISC
• There are 81 integer operation instructions alone in the x86 spec
• Intel���s failed attempt to ditch the x86 instruction set with the RISC-based Itanium
• RISC-V is an open-source ISA
• You can view the entirety of the instruction set on GitHub right now
• The history of RISC-V’s inception is pretty interesting
• Debate on proprietary versus open instruction sets
• One such RISC-V company, covered by The Next Platform, is Ventana Micro Systems

• Apple Looks To Release Even More Expensive Phone Options
• More Cloud Outages You Say? Microsoft Proves Me Right.
• Elon Musk Freed From One Lawsuit, Still Has The Other 80 To Deal With
• Advertising Company Google Now Offers Free Malware!
• You Think You Know About Ice, But You Have No Idea
• Developer Survey Confirms Devs Love Rust and Hate Going Anywhere

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Episode: 43 Published: 1/31/2023

• 2023 State Of Privacy Report
• Considering the absolute plethora of security breaches that involved PII loss over the past year or so
• We have known for years that yearly training is not enough to cause long-term changes in security and privacy behavior
• One that was particularly outrageous was Home Depot Canada
• H&R Block did it too
• The Radiolab episode about Null

• Web3 Company Raises $10M Because Reasons?
• Advertising Company Google Sued For Their Monopolistic Practices Selling Advertising
• It���s the end of Intel as we know it, and I feel fine
• Zero Trust Still Struggling To Gain Effective Widespread Adoption Despite Awesome Name
• The US is about to go Nuclear! Again.
  • There are 93 active nuclear power plants in the US that produce about 19% of all electricity
• Can We Please Pump The Breaks On Articles About How AI Will Be Taking Everything Over By This Time Next Week

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Episode: 42 Published: 1/24/2023

• Edge is not a thing(���) in the same vein as Supercloud
• Let���s go over the high level goals outlined by NIST

• Now They Want AI Lawyers? What���s The Worst That Could Happen?
• Vulnerable Historians that aren���t Chris
• Annnd The AI-Generated Art Lawsuits Have Arrived
• Twitter App I Never Used Rendered Useless
  • Craig Hockenberry, the creator of Twitterific, published a blog post called ���The Shit Show���
  • Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.
• Guitar Center Migrates Most Infrastructure Into Oracle Cloud
• More Layoffs from Microsoft and Google
  • Google hasn���t reported their year end results for 2022 yet, but for the first 9 months they are sitting at $46.3B in net income

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Episode: 41 Published: 1/17/2023

• Mass cancellations for Southwest flights

• The failure of the FAA���s Notice to Air Missions (or NOTAM) system
• Wikipedia has an example of a NOTAM transmission
• Oracleesque in the sense that a software bug inadvertently caused the system to corrupt its own data

• Fine we���ll talk about CES. TL;DR most everything at CES was terrible
  • The Oven Won���t Talk To The Fridge
• Magic Leap Makes the Entirely Expected Jump to Enterprise
• Intel Releases Next-Generation CPU Sapphire Rapids, Some Other Stuff Too
  • Intel also released a new i9 codenamed Raptor Lake
• The Inevitable March to Rust Continues with Chrome
• iTunes Replacement for Windows? Hope it flogs the alpaca���s posterior.
• There hasn���t been an iDevice that required wired syncing since the Nano and Shuffle were discontinued in 2017

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Episode: 40 Published: 1/10/2023

• Rackspace���s managed Exchange service went mysteriously dark back in December 2nd
• Rackspace has since released the results of a forensic examination into the incident
• CrowdStrike determined that the mitigations were insufficient, and that there was a previously undisclosed method for intrusion that did not require VCE-2022-41040

• On an episode of Backup Central���s Restore It All podcast I talked extensively about LastPass
• Everything else, for every LastPass user was exfiltrated. In LastPass���s own words
• I talk about this in more detail elsewhere but the tl;dr is: change all your passwords

• The information available on CircleCI���s website is frustratingly vague to the point of parody.
• Feels like a gross understatement to your alleged 1 Million developers and 30k organizations

• The attack looks like it was slow motion scraping

• Apparently Gen-Z thinks that the coolest technology is as old as they are
• Android without ARM? Sounds like a RISC-Y proposition
• Speaking of processors- Apple made a mistake designing one
• Noncompete is bullshit, and soon also illegal
• Artist who did real work accused of using AI because “it looks artificially generated”
• A Fond Farewell to 3G

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Episode: 39 Published: 1/3/2023

Ned���s clearly right and superior predictions:

• More major outages than 2022
• CXL available in the public cloud
• Elon will no longer be CEO of Twitter and Tesla
• Mastodon adoptions will level off and stagnate
• Public cloud growth with slow by 30%
• Supercloud will die and unceremonious death
  • Twitter thread between Dave Vallente and Charles Fitzgerald.
• DevOps is dead, long live DevOps
  • DevOps Is Dead! Long Live Platform Engineering! Did We Get Confused?

Chris’ Garbage (I mean excellent ideas):

• Not just it outages increasing, but also security incidents
• Elon hands over control of Twitter to Sheryl Sandberg
• Zero Trust and passwordless will gain a lot more traction
• Regulations are coming regarding AI and Crypto

No lightning round this week. Slow news time and doesn’t really fit with a predictions episode.

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Episode: 38 Published: 12/13/2022

• As we mentioned last week, re:Invent 2022 happened. And it was fine?
• I had excellent conversations with:
  • XoSphere
  • Aiven
  • Structura
  • Retool
• Despite talking at Keynotes for many, many hours
• Sometimes developers and infrastructure people appreciate a helping hand
• Look up the Kin if you���d like a good laugh

• On the next episode of Elon Musk���s Increasingly Bad Decisions, a Twitter Crypto coin
• Passkey Coming to Chrome Stable
• Scientists demonstrate 100gbps link from groundstations to satellites
• Raspberry Pi Wants You To CHILL
  • There���s a great case study posted on Eiara that details the timeline and reaction from the Mastodon community
• AI text-generating engine ChatGPT from openai is taking the world by storm
• FTC moves to block Microsoft���s purchase of Activision
  • If you���d like an extended deep dive on the matter, check out Ben Thompson���s post on Stratechery

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Episode: 37 Published: 12/06/2022

• SlackOps ideas for developer workflows
• According to Slack themselves, the way that Qumulo uses slack

• Android OEM Keys Leaked, Still Not Getting an iPhone
  • Excellent detail from Mishaal Rahman
• I thought it was Skynet we were afraid of, not the OCP
• Rackspace Fanatically Tells You To Go Away
  • Their Hosted Exchange product which was halted on December 2nd due to an unnamed issue
  • Rackspace���s Hosted Exchange was hacked using one of many well-known vulnerabilities
• If you ever want to know how much of a scam something is, just look at the people involved
• Starlink Gen2 Satellites Given The Green Light
• AWS re:Invent finished on Friday, and there was much rejoicing

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Episode: 36 Published: 11/29/2022

• A bank run is also what happened to FTX, caused by SBF���s rival CZ
• Here���s probably my favorite pull quote from his bankruptcy filing in the court of Delaware
• Checking out the series by Cold Fusion on YouTube
• Coffeezilla is pretty decent too, but a little irritating
• Patrick Boyle is goddamn hilarious

• Tensions over broken financial promises at Foxconn ended up in a violent protest
• You can now install WSL as a Microsoft Store App
• We���ve lost another titan of Computer Science- Dr Frederick Brooks dead at 91
  • The Mythical Man-Month quotes
• New York Just Says No to Carbon Emitting Crypto
• Microsoft���s Patch Tuesday routine releases of Windows Server updates breaks Domain Controllers
• Looks Who���s Using Rust Now!

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Episode: 35 Published: 11/22/2022

• EU Cyber Resiliency Act
• This past month, there was another OpenSSL vulnerability
• Azure Sphere

• That Time Bears Ruled Space
  • Bears living in space are animals which have been sent into space on board space missions
• So apparently wireless charging is��� not great
  • The entire AMA is worth the read
• GitHub Copilot being sued, others to surely follow
• Rule 34 keeps being accurate - AI generated images are now being used for porn
• FCC Releases Broadband Maps for Your Feedback
  • There is just enough basis in reality that they won���t get sued, although sometimes they do
• I feel like crap, and Ned doesn���t care. What was the question again?

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Episode: 34 Published: 11/15/2022

• Starting with the rounds of layoffs, here���s a smattering
• Meta lays off 11k people amounting to 13% of its workforce
• Why is this happening now?
• What should you do if you’re laid off?
• What should you do if you’re not?

• We had it all wrong! The beginning of SkyNet is gonna be��� plants!
• Twitter Engineer Calls Out Muskie, Gets Sacked
• Apple iCloud Photos integration into��� Windows?
• Google Actually Has to Pony Up for Privacy Violations
• IBM announces 433-qubit ���Osprey��� Quantum processor, which is way more qubits than the last one was
• Adorable CubeSat sent to the Moon, loves Pink Floyd?

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Episode: 33 Published: 11/08/2022

• OCP Global Summit 2022
• Tech Field Day for CXL

• Surf the capitalism wave on a new browser brah.
• The ���free speech��� world Elon actually wants: the freedom to spout woe-is-me bullsh*t from up on high, with no accountability whatsoever
• Cloudflare claims huge future growth, analysts are underwhelmed
• SETI is still active, and in fact is working harder than ever
• SolarWinds, remember them? The SEC does!
• I can���t dance I can���t talk. Only think about me is the way that I ��� die

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Episode: 32 Published: 11/01/2022

• Mastodon Docs
• Find a server that works for you
• Twitter has about 278M daily active users
• LinkedIn has about 900M members
• Facebook has 1.9B daily active users
• TikTok has 1.8B monthly active users
• The fediverse has about 6M users
• According to Tech Crunch, Mastodon app downloads appear to be at an all time high
• I have joined the Hachyderm.io server hosted by Kris Nova

• ISO 27001 updated for 2022
• Nutanix Might Be For Sale. Who���s Buying?
• Microsoft keeps trying to compete with iPad Pro, keeps falling on their face
• Mobileye IPO Debuts at $21 a Share for an Intel Wash
• Rambus releases PCIe 6 interface intended to add functionality for CXL 3.0 to SoC solutions
• That Sinking Feeling Over At Twitter HQ

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Episode: 31 Published: 10/25/2022

• Microsoft report on Hybrid Work hits on a huge disconnect between management and workers
• A 31,000-person study conducted at the beginning of 2022 shows a plurality of workers who are against full-time in office working arrangements
• Comparing March through August 2019 vs 2020, the report showed a clear productivity improvement
• The Slack based Future Forum did a survey of 10,000 workers just this month that showed clear advantages in productivity for hybrid and full time workforces
• According to the JLL Occupancy Benchmarking Guide from 2020, the average cost of on-site operations pre pandemic was a staggering $463/mo per square meter
• Comcast is trying to slow-motion drag people back into the city?
• Zuck���s latest theory is that people should use the metaverse as the workplace

• GitHub is making code forks less of a Forking nightmare
• Microsoft Azure ���misconfiguration��� leads to 65,000 entities losing data, MSFT still says the damage was ���greatly exaggerated���
• Google adds some guac to the security burrito
• Microsoft looking to invest in OpenAI���s DALL-E project, integrate its functionality into Microsoft products and tools
• After WSL, Windows Subsystem for Android is the logical extension
• ISC2 is in the middle of a seriously contentious new election and bylaws modification controversy
  • Wim Remes, famous outspoken Belgian IT Security poobah has been just one of the prominent voices leading the charge against these by-laws

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Episode: 30 Published: 10/18/2022

• Watch on demand
• Bryan Krausen gave a great talk about what he’s learned about Vault from over five years of consulting
• Azure Terrafy 0.8.0 is out
• Join the Azure Terraform community
• Matt Butcher from Fermyon talked about how they chose to use Nomad for WebAssmebly

• Advertising company Google wades into the IoT OS game with KataOS and Sparrow projects
• ESNet6 Feels the Need for Speed
• Microsoft Ignite was last week, and boy are my arms on fire!
• Microsoft Office is Dead, Long Live Microsoft 365
• Facebook continues to try to make the Metaverse happen. It���s probably not gonna happen.
• If at first you don���t succeed, fail fail again.

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Episode: 29 Published: 10/11/2022

• The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
• A history and breakdown of the work that was done regarding quantum mechanics over the past 100 years
• Bells theorem
• Does color exist if no one is watching?
• The Free Will Theorem
• Researchers have been working on a quantum bus
• How does temperature work in a quantum system?
• Secure Communication via Quantum Teleportation

• Will Big Blue Do Right By Ceph?
• Elon Musk just can���t stop��� losing
  • Elon came out in favor of Russia���s plan to stop the war in Ukraine
  • The stock dropped another 10 percent after production numbers failed to hit projections
• Microsoft Ignite is happening. And you know what THAT means!
  • Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge
• Another Day, Another Blockchain Hack
• Microsoft announces Azure Firewall Basic in preview

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Episode: 28 Published: 10/04/2022

• A website from Cornell that is an actual software project to allow for application migration between clouds
• MIT webpage about a project they called supercloud that was meant to enhance collaboration between MIT Lincoln labs, students, and faculty
• The rise of the supercloud
• There is a working group definition of Supercloud you can check out
• It was discussed in an IT Roundtable at Cloud Field Day 15

• Amazon announces preorder for Halo Rise, because Bezos literally wants to watch you sleep
  • Keeping your data safe is a bar that Amazon has consistently, and repeatedly, failed to clear
• Reason Number 0 Not To Run Exchange Yourself
  • Microsoft has an advisory post up that details the vulnerabilities and suggested mitigation strategies
• OpenAI removes waitlist, gives full, immediate access to DALL-E
• C and C++ are looking mighty rusty, or rather they aren���t
• Google moving forward with Manifest v3 mandate, much to society���s general disgust
• Stadia Fragged By Friendly Fire
  • Alas, another service killed by google. Wonder if there���s a site tracking that sort of thing?

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Episode: 27 Published: 09/27/2022

• One attack that has been making the rounds recently is what���s being called MFA Fatigue
• Microsoft Authenticator push notifications called Number Matching in preview
• Many South American countries have an interesting solution to the problem of speeding

• Linux 6.0 Kernel Coming in the Next Week
• CIS Benchmarks for Azure and AWS updated to version 1.5
• Different Name, Same Old Shit. Facebook Continues to be Awful.
  • Apple rolled out App Tracking Transparency, and Facebook instantly lost $10B in ad revenue?
• Morgan Stanley hit with fine for ���Astonishing��� security failures going back as far as 2015
• Limited Capacity Plus More Users Equals Slower Speed
• Not only do floppy disks still exist, there are still active customers for them

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Episode: 26 Published: 09/20/2022

• The recently ratified Decentralized Identifier W3C standard
• SSI or Self-Sovereign Identity
• Decentralized Identity Foundation

• Uber gets like, all the way hacked
  • The hacker had admin access to the Uber Slack channel and was talking to employees
• RISC-V getting a leg up on ARM?
• What do actual artists think about the AI image generation revolution? Greg Rutkowski weighs in.
• Time for the Crypto Blame Game
• Adobe panic-buys Figma for $20 billion, public rolls eyes and Adobe stock tanks
• Ethereum merge is complete, crypto bros are underwhelmed

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Episode: 25 Published: 09/13/2022

• According to Statista, in September of 2021, there was a daily average of 105 billion emails sent. Of those 105 billion, 89 billion were spam
• A lot of small sites to give up on the concept of self-hosting email servers altogethe
• Replacing SMTP: A Proposal

• The Storage Was Within You All Along
• Apple Release Event Goes Exactly Like Everyone Knew It Would
  • Apple���s iPhone userbase now makes up over 50% of the total smartphone market
• Accuracy actually matters, who knew? Not the ISPs.
• IRS to ���look into��� setting up free e-filing system
• More and more states are requiring companies to post salary ranges for jobs
• Bitwarden Gets 100 Million from Venture Capital, Christopher Has Second Thoughts About Migrating to Bitwarden

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Episode: 24 Published: 09/06/2022

No actual links, but here’s the four categories:

• Theoretical (Completely abstracted from the technology)
• Tech specific (Abstracted from a specific vendor, applied to a tech stack or area)
• Industry specific (Abstracted from a specific vendor, applied to a vertical)
• Vendor specific (Applied to a specific product)

• IRS Accidentally Makes Business Tax Return Data Public For Like��� A Year
• Cloudflare relents, refuses to engage with reality
  • Check out the linked post from Liz the Grey for more context
• LastPass Gets Hacked - It���s Not As Bad As it Sounds
• VMware Explore Happened
• Amazon Decides That It���s Time To Be Responsible About Reviews Only When It Comes To Amazons Own Properties
• Web 3 is in its Infancy, still a very ugly baby

Sucking on a Chili Dog

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Episode: 23 Published: 08/30/2022

• This is a story about a man called Mudge who said some pretty intense things about Twitter
• This week, he dropped some bombshells in a whistleblower document and a companion interview with Time Magazine

• Heroku Free-tier No More
• Jack Dorsey regrets that twitter became a company
• You Get What You Pay For Is Finally True
• Yet another AI-based image creator released, and this one is open-source
• Absolutists Absolutely Suck
• Google giveth, and Google taketh away in Android UX, with updated advertising guidance for developers

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Episode: 22 Published: 08/23/2022

• Network Interface Controller
• To further enhance that interaction, the Data Plane Development Kit project was created
• Open Programmable Infrastructure project to try and set an open standard for how these DPUs work
• OpenStack has drivers for using Neutron with Open Virtual Networking
• VMware Project Monterey
• ROCE and iWARP

• ProtonMail Suffers Second Outage in 8 Weeks, Users are Not Amused
• Why is Ethereum always preparing? Just Merge already.
• 2 year old iOS bug that renders VPNs unreliable still not fixed, says researcher
• Beware the unused account says Mandiant
• In the early 2000���s, Janet Jackson���s video for Rhythm Nation would crash computers
  • Sun Engineer Brendan Gregg causing observable latency in a disk array by shouting at them
• Google Cloud Armor fends off 46M Requests Per Second DDoS Attack

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Episode: 21 Published: 08/16/2022

Things were going great until they weren���t: Companies floundering after Covid boom cools down

• Mark Zuckerberg, asshole-in-chief of Facebook, released a memo to employees
• People at google are concerned about the ���vibe change���
• Controversial stock trading platform Robinhood has dropped users steadily since it went public
• So just a quick rundown of some other companies that have announced layoffs
• Silicon Valley therapists are in high demand
• 25% increase in anxiety and depression worldwide
• Solitary confinement is regarded as torture

• 2026 will be the year of the SmartNIC, just like every year before
• Apple finally bringing back the mascot you didn���t know they had
• Microsoft Open Sources��� It���s Emojis
  • Defined in the Unicode Standard
  • openmoji.org
• All Apple internet traffic redirected through Russian state-owned telecom for half a day
  • https://isbgpsafeyet.com
• Committing fraud is a Breeze, getting away with it is not.
• Google Fiber making a bit of a comeback after being stalled for 5+ years

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Episode: 20 Published: 08/09/2022

Zero Trust Doesn’t Exist

• Zero Trust has been around since 1994
• Kerberos is the authentication protocol used by Active Directory and other LDAP implementations
• Security Assertion Markup Language is a standard by which a client , service provider, and identity provider can perform the authentication dance

• DuckDuckGo mostly says No, to Microsoft
• Comcast ramps soft policy of return to the office, based on essentially nothing
• Don���t Trust Microsoft? FauxPilot offers an alternative
  • Keep an eye on the GitHub repo for new releases
• EquiFail Faxes again- er, wait. I did that wrong.
• Winamp returns to abuse an alpaca
• Last week we talked about SATA cables sharing data over about a 3 foot distance. This week fiber optic cable says, ���Hold my beer.���

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Episode: 19 Published: 08/02/2022

A not so quick deepdive into this HTTP/3 thing

• Page performance metrics from webpagetest.org
• TLS 1.3 introduced the concept of early data as ���0-RTT.���
• The vast majority of firewall vendors recommend blocking QUIC as a security measure
• F5 thinks that QUIC is inevitable

• Despite Crypto Winter, Investors see a Web3 Spring in Unstoppable Domains
• 100TB SSDs are available; 200TB SSDs on the horizon
• Can IBM Protect Crypto Against Quantum? Yes and No.
• Congress passes CHIPs act, helping to fund tech programs in the US
• Tacocat weeps for the fallen
• The Browser Company���s Arc Browser getting wider release
  • The browser company���s waitlist
  • Arc even has competition from a non-beta product, called Sidekick
  • New VERY beta product called DayBridge is trying re-imagine calendars

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Episode: 18 Published: 07/26/2022

Is Open Core Dead? No.

• The Future of Open Source, or Why Open Core Is Dead
• There���s a bunch more in the list, and if you���re curious you can hit up the show notes for the link.
• Elastic, in particular, tried to create a new license that prevented AWS and other cloud providers from running their software without paying
• AWS is free to fork an older version of the code and continue to develop it in the open

• Mozilla enables URL Stripping (which is not as sexy as it sounds). Facebook responds by encrypting links, which is not as safe as it sounds
  • Mozilla announced that their firefox browser would be automatically stripping out these query parameters
  • There is nothing that can be done to get away from the current facebook tracking model
• Hardcoded passwords are still��� bad? Yes, bad.
• Simply unplugging the network doesn’t guarantee your data is safe
• Stumbling into the cloud era, vSphere now supports cloud-init
• OpenAI makes full DALL-E 2 model widely available- for a cost
• NFTs hit a roadblock with Minecraft

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Episode: 17 Published: 07/19/2022

Is there a limit to the Hyperscalers?

• Gestalt IT Roundtable Podcast - Multi-Cloud is Inevitable
• CloudFlare R2 Service
• Gartner���s customer review site shows that Citrix is superior to AWS when it comes to Application Delivery
• Boutique search engines are starting to make sense
• The Digital Markets Act was passed on July 5th in the EU
• Follow Dwayne Monroe for more on publicly-owned clouds

• Linux/UNIX text editor Vim has first major version release in 3 years, somehow there is controversy
• Fetch a Free FIDO key with AWS
• Netflix chooses Microsoft as their advertising partner
• HTTP/3 is now a standard! Awkward slash and all.
• Elon Musk���s lawyers continue to enrich themselves by arguing in bad faith over Twitter deal
  • Legal Eagle breakdown of the case
• He���s a 10, but has an object deserialization vulnerability

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Episode: 16 Published: 07/12/2022

• DevOps is a failure
• Ned’s tweet

• Most expensive component in servers, might be getting cheaper
• The Twitter Muskening continues to failify, the internet revels in the chaos
• Samsung scoops TSMC with nanometer 3
• Apple investing in lockdown modes for iOS devices
• Starlinking from anywhere
• Microsoft does the right thing the wrong way, the accountants complain, Microsoft does the wrong thing and undoes what it did- also the wrong way

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Episode: 15 Published: 06/28/2022

• The limitations of AI and AIOps (aka our own limitations)
• Can there be a logical air gap?
• Hybrid and multicloud trends and solutions

Links:

• Cloud Field Day 14

• The Linux kernel is getting rusty
• 7zip now supports the mark of the web, which is totally not related to the devil
• HashiConf EU Recap
• RSA event was a superspreader for COVID
• GitHub Copilot pilot is over, and AWS whispers sweet nothings
• EU Regulators questioning Broadcom takeover of VMware

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Episode: 14 Published: 06/21/2022

Links:

• A Google engineer has been making some wild claims about a chat bot he was working on
• How easy it is to make people get emotional about inanimate objects such as an IKEA lamp
• Trying to find a way to describe AI that includes self-awareness
• The interview that Blake and co did with LaMDA
• There is a website called DALL-E mini
• In 2019 some researchers tried to get AI to invent a sport

• Internet Explorer is Dead, but will never die
• HP Releases ���Dev One��� Laptop Preinstalled with Pop!_OS Linux
• RFC 1925 Rule number 11
• Elon Musk addresses Twitter employees, makes more enemies by being himself
  • A private slack chat which was promptly leaked
• Isovalent open sources Tetragon to leverage eBPF for security
• Pawel Zadrozniak releases the Floppotron 3.0 and what have I been doing with my life
• Cloud Field Day 14 is live this week!

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Episode: 13 Published: 06/14/2022

Links:

• freeCodeCamp
• Learn Python

• USB-C Wins: EU Mandates Standardization in Wired Charging By 2024
• The sun also sets on Atom
• Want a free Microsoft Cert voucher? Complete a free Microsoft Build Challenge!
• Windows 11 22H2 now available for prerelease
• macOS 13 will block USB-C communications by default
• Gartner continues streak of pointing out the blindingly obvious with newest advice on VMware

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Episode: 12 Published: 06/07/2022

Links:

• DuckDuckGo dinged for passing Microsoft trackers through their browser app
• These mailers were delivered through the EDDM service of the USPS
• Brave���s tonedeaf ad campaign is still getting roasted on twitter
• The official Brave stance on the effort seems to be
• The EFF has a good site that talks about browser fingerprinting, and gives you a way to see it in action for yourself
• Kagi is an interesting new player in the search engine space that is still in beta
• Searx lets you host your own private instance of a search engine

• Seth Green can���t make a show because he thinks his stolen NFT is THAT important
• Can you actually, like, own stuff, man?
• Microsoft continues innovating by renaming a bunch of stuff and putting it in a folder
• Lotsa layoffs with more on the way
• Google brings us right back to Hangouts by merging Meet and Duo into just Meet
• CloudNativeCon and KubeCon EU Highlights
  • Another big trend was the discussion about GitOps

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Episode: 11 Published: 05/31/2022

EXT: A suburban neighborhood in front of a house with green siding and white trim. It is definitely green and not at all blue, no matter what my ex says. Our heroes are exiting the front door wearing spring appropriate garb.

CHRIS: It’s not that I don’t like cake, it’s more that I’m ambivalent towards it. Like me and cake would be great neighbors, but not friends.

NED: That’s stupid, cake is everyone’s friend. In fact���

[Ned is interrupted by a loud cracking sound as a blue lighting ball appears in front of the house that is definitely not blue. I mean it could be considered a blueish green, but primarily green. No one would mistake it for a blue house. Oh, and a mysterious figure emerges from the ball. ]

OLD MAN: Ned, Chris! Thank goodness, I’m in the right timeline. Tell me, is it Blurbuary yet?

CHRIS: Blurbuary? What are you talking about, it’s May. And how do you know our���

OLD MAN: There’s no time! I mean there’s lots of time, maybe too much. But then this must mean.. Quick, who is the president?

NED: Joe Biden

OLD MAN: Crap. And what goes on a hot dog?

CHRIS: Ketchup, naturally.

OLD MAN: No no no, crap. Crappity crap crap. Alright, last question, and listen carefully. How do you feel about cake?

CHRIS: [Begins to answer and is rudely cut off by another lightning ball.] Don���t care for���

[Before Chris can finish his sentence, the old man is sucked into the new lightning ball, which adds a blue-ish pallor to the house, which is still unequivocally green. I mean, in the proper lighting at dawn or dusk, maybe I could see it? No, no, no! This is a green house and I stand by it.]

NED: That was. Odd. Should we go get some hot dogs with ketchup?

CHRIS: Sure! And we can get some delicious pie afterwards.

NED: Sounds good. Even if we can���t agree on cake, we���ll always have pie.

Links:

• Broadcom to buy VMware? Smell test failed
  • Wow I was wrong fast!
• Email to employees from the CEO
• Broadcom investor presentation
• Strategy for Broadcom from a 2021 slide deck shows they are focused on top 600 customers. Hope you���re one of those!
• Brian Madden has feeling that are worth reading

• Microsoft Build Stuff I Care About
• An AMD-powered supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier for the first time
• Microsoft Office security vulnerability identified after Microsoft decided it wasn���t a problem
  • There are other mitigations you can enact right now that include deregistering the msdt protocol

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Episode: 10 Published: 05/24/2022

NED: Good King Wenceslas came to town riding on a pony. Tucked a feather in hip cap and called it macaroni!

CHRIS: That’s uh, that’s not the right song. It’s Good Gnome Wenceslas and he liked fettucini.

NED: Yuck, GGW had some shit taste in pasta.

CHRIS: You should have seen his Yule logs.

Links:

• How can I be secure without spending a lot of money?
• Quad9 is a free DNS service that maintains a list of malicious internet addresses, and blacklists them

• Good talent is hard to find and keep
• The ���Deal��� that Elon is stuck with to buy Twitter is just staggeringly, astonishingly bad
• Windows 11. Good enough I guess.
  • The nagware campaign intensifies- apparently this has been showing up in the wild on Win10 desktops during startup
• Remember way back when, when we told you to patch your systems? That includes VMware systems too
• Look out PCIe here comes CXL
• Introducing a new fun favorite website to follow: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

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Episode: 9 Published: 05/17/2022

Google I/O - We want to be Apple too!

NED: Do you think it was too much with the “help you till you’re dead” thing?

CHRIS: Too much? Not enough I’d say. You really think Google is gonna stop when you’re dead?

NED: Fair point. Would the recently deceased like to see a range of caskets and burial options?

GHOST: Oh shit, I’m dead. How is Google in the afterlife?

CHRIS: Google is here to help. Forever and always. Now check out these coffins. They’re all in various shades of spirit-vortex blue.

Links:

• Keynote video

• After Nearly 21 Years Of Dominance, Apple Announces The End Of iPods
• Rackspace want to go out, wants to come in, wants to go out
  • Customers who were locked into Rackspace had to continue to suffer for the duration of their contracts
• DockerCon Details Desktop-Centric Future, Plus Nestybox Acquisition
• The Allegedly ���Stable��� TerraUSD Coin Bounces Its Value Violently In A Matter Of Days
• The relationship between UST and luna entered a ���death spiral.���
• RHEL 9 was officially released and there was much rejoicing.

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Episode: 8 Published: 05/10/2022

In case you were wondering, this is the race we were discussing.

As promised/threatened, it has come time to dig into the financial earning reports of the big three cloud providers, and as a bonus we can also take a peek at what���s going on with Oracle and IBM, and maybe even some of the traditional vendors like HPE and Dell. I don���t know if we���ll have enough time!

Links:

• We are still going to start with some numbers, courtesy of siliconANGLE
• Charles Fitzgerald has published a snarky and deeply enjoyable read over on his Platfornomics
• I can assure you that it is limited, as some folks in the EU discovered during the early days of the pandemic.
• Here���s an early attempt at a definition of supercloud

• Slow Moving Botnet Uses IoT and Time To Hack Companies - It’s Super Successful!
• Celebrate National Password Day by Ending It
• SMTP, Insecure Internet Protocols, Has Another Bad Day
• Samsung sees VMware SD card confusion, ups the ante
• Facebook���s international greed really does put the ���earth��� in ���scum of the earth���
• Hate Running Citrix? Let the clouds do it for you!

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Episode: 7 Published: 05/03/2022

Look I don’t know how much of this AI-enhanced microwave called Magnetron story is true, and how much is theatre. And frankly, I don’t give a damn. Go feed your eyeballs and top up your mirth meter.

NED: Good god man, I thought you told me no one reads the show notes. Why did you put so many links?

CHRIS: Because Bratwurst.

NED: Bratwurst? What the? How does..? OH. I GET IT. LINKS.

CHRIS: Any more stupid questions?

NED: [SIGH] No.

CHRIS: Then get back to scrubbing.

Links:

• 2015 was the prime time to do it, as average phone data speeds around that time were abysmal
• A 16-state lawsuit claiming antitrust violations by google
• A number of web content producers including Vox and BuzzFeed are thinking of ditching AMP completely
• Brave put out a blog post that said AMP is “harmful to privacy”
• In 2020 Brave threw a complaint into the EU���s court
• Google getting sued for stacking the deck in favor of it���s own Google Shopping product
• DuckDuckGo browser apps will convert any AMP links to the original publisher���s webpage before being displayed
• Also it���s worth noting that DDG has a privacy plugin
• Google is working on a new user tracking system called FLoC
• FLoC is so hip, it even has a github page
• There is significant concern around FLoC, as the EFF helpfully points out
• The famous example of Target knowing the state of a pregnancy based only on purchase patterns alone
• Mozilla evaluated FLoC when it was announced, and determined it was wanting
• Web sites have rejected access to applications based on the browser being used
• There is a humorous history of the user-agent string

• Speaking of terrible browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer is still a thing, until June 15
• Atlassian Provides Exhaustive Summary of Incident
• VMWare clarifies the ESXi boot-from-SD card situation for the millionth time
• Couldn���t have happened to a nicer fella
• Pixel watch prototype ���found��� by review site. It seems .. fine?
• Istio to join the CNCF (finally!)
  • Part of the trademark conversation was driven by AWS��� creation of Elasticsearch and the perceived infringement on Elastic���s trademarks

Elon continues to be a very silly man who has no idea what he���s talking about, but cannot seem to stop talking. Perhaps if he did, he���d actually have to think about what his words mean. And therein lies madness. Tech Crunch continues on their streak of calling out Elon���s bullshit.

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Episode: 6 Published: 04/26/2022

NED: So um, I don’t really have any links b/c I was just ranting the entire time.

CHRIS: It’s fine, just put whatever here. No one reads the show notes anyway.

NED: Whew, that’s a relief. I still feel bad though.

CHRIS: Just add a link to whatever, no one cares.

NED: Okay. Here’s Human Infrastructure Magazine where my multicloud thoughts appear in print.

CHRIS: Do you feel better?

NED: A little?

CHRIS: Good, now go get my pumice stone. These corns aren’t going to scrub themselves.

• Ubuntu releases latest Long Term Release version - 22.04 ���Jammy Jellyfish���
• $500B in cloud spend and I���m still working in my basement
• Apple released Thunderbolt 4 cables, USB-C quietly wept
• Hollowcore is not a new EDM genre for nihilists
• Governmental ���Hack the DHS��� program bears significant buggy fruit
• Waiter, there���s a Fly in my Consul Service
  • Fly.io was on my other podcast Day Two Cloud last year

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Episode: 5 Published: 04/19/2022

Links to check out:

• So, after using Copilot for about 2 hours, I���m basically an expert
• Concerns about GitHub taking advantage (and monetizing- this ain���t gonna be free, kids) based on people���s contributions to open-source projects
• A quick look at the (no-opt-outable) Telemetry Terms shows that your code is 100% uploaded to GitHub and investigated
• shellcheck.net
• From the GitHub Copilot FAQ
• Github also just released Copilot Labs, an even more experimental add-on that is working to extend what Copilot can do

• The same thing we literally just talked about, except this time for visual art
  • An astronaut lounging in a tropical resort in space as pixel art
• I mean it���s right there in the name, Puppet. Of course they would have a master.
• Google working with iFixit to aid in sourcing parts for old phone repairs
• Let���s get AMPed about an IPO y���all!
• First major malware that specifically targets Lambda found in the wild
• Use a Cloud Service they said, your data will be safer they said.

Alex Wilhelm from TechCrunch has a fantastic article.

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Episode: 4 Published: 04/12/2022

Sources to check out:

• Line Goes Up from Folding Ideas
• David Rosenthal���s presentation at EE380
• Spencer Cornelia’s YouTube Channel

• Google joining AWS and Azure at the Edge
• ARM yourself Azure
  • We���ve linked the blog post where you can apply to be part of the preview
• In the ���Not getting my hopes up category��� First Light claims a nuclear fusion breakthrough
• Insecure billionaire crybaby buys seat on Twitter���s board of directors because ���free speech��� or something
  • Elon Musk only cares about free speech when it���s speech in his benefit. If any speech is criticism of himself, he does everything in his power to censor the life out of it.

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Episode: 3 Published: 04/05/2022

• Security Field Day 7 website
• YouTube Page with all XFD7 presentations
• Juniper Connected Security
• Racktop Links
  • Securing your data is just as important as securing your network
  • The product Racktop sells is actually the OS/security platform, called BrickStor SP

• AMD acquires Pensando right out from under HPEs nose
• Apple planning a hardware subscription service because a 2.8T market cap just isn���t enough
• RedHat open sources StackRox: Securing containers has never been open sourcier!
• ���For example, there are only 25 blimps in the world.��� Says young smartypants running my new favorite twitter follow
• ���Extreme Ironing, which combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.���
• Bad Lip Reading: Tech Interview Edition

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Episode: 2 Published: 03/30/2022

• That PBS video about English Spelling

• Security Field Day 7 website
• YouTube Page with all XFD7 presentations
• Keeper Links
  • Keeper Security website
  • Encyption docs from Keeper
  • Keeper refers to their encryption model as ���Zero-Knowledge and Zero-Trust Architecture.���
  • If you have an enterprise license with Keeper, a family license is free for personal use
  • Keeper���s February 2022 acquisition of glyptodon
• Microsoft Links
  • Microsoft Loves Linux- er, I mean, Security!
  • Microsoft XDR
  • Microsoft also JUST released a Ransomware Recommendations dashboard
  • Defender for Cloud���s supported kill-chain analysis, based on version 7 of the MITRE ATT&CK matrix
  • The very best way to wrangle microsoft portals is a service hosted by NOT MICROSOFT
  • The best way to start looking at Microsoft Licensing is also not a Microsoft property
  • Sentinel has the ability to ingest logs from a lot of other providers using an ever-expanding list of connectors

• NFTs are awful and worthless and are 100% a scam. Want to know more? Buy our NFT!
• Counterpoint: Yuga Labs raises a seed round at a $4B valuation.
• Counter-counterpoint: Unstoppable is looking for funding at a $1B valuation to be the Okta of Web3
• Speaking of Okta: This story just keeps getting better. And by better I mean worse. And by worse I mean hilarious.
• Zoom Avatars! You can finally turn up to a zoom meeting as a rabbit, or a dog!
  • Giraffes have the same amount of cervical vertebrae as humans?
• I was told that the future would be plastics. I was NOT told they would be in my bloodstream.

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Episode: 1 Published: 03/22/2022

Here are the stories we covered:

• Storage is in my DNA, and yours, and that guy over there with the Phish t-shirt
• Microsoft unreleases ads-in-file-explorer feature from test build of Win11, calls the ���experimental��� feature release ���unintentional.���
• Microsoft, disgusted with Chris��� assertion that they are merely obsessed with ads, makes it clear that Advertising is the company���s ���Newfound Religion���
• Not to be left out of chip-a-pa-looza Oracle is investing big in Ampere
• New emojis are rolling out for general use and none of them are lasagna

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