Behemicorny Dreaming Episode: 41 Published: 1/17/2023 Looks like I picked a bad, er, wait- no��� GOOD week to quit flying Part 1: More like SouthWORST amirite?!?!?? Mass cancellations for Southwest flights Part 2: NOTAM? More like No Ma���am- Wait, Are We Not Doing Married With Children Callbacks Anymore? We Never Were? Oh. Uh��� Let���s Just Move On. 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...
Jan 17, 2023•50 min•Ep. 41
Slow Motion Scraping Episode: 40 Published: 1/10/2023 Low Risk and Big Reward - or the problem of highly centralized systems that contain critical data for thousands of customers Rackspace 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 re...
Jan 10, 2023•53 min•Ep. 40
Celestial Fire on the Royal Edifice Episode: 39 Published: 1/3/2023 Stories Prediction Palooza! 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 Li...
Jan 03, 2023•49 min•Ep. 39
Six Tanks A Singing Episode: 38 Published: 12/13/2022 Stories Is Amazon Still re:Inventing? 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 Lightning Round On the next episode of Elon Musk���s Increasingly Bad Decisions, a Twitter Crypto coin P...
Dec 13, 2022•49 min•Ep. 38
Tin Foil Birds Aren���t Real Episode: 37 Published: 12/06/2022 Stories SlackOps- or, the modern way of handling Customer Relations SlackOps ideas for developer workflows According to Slack themselves, the way that Qumulo uses slack Lightning Round 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 d...
Dec 06, 2022•49 min•Ep. 37
Bram Stoker���s Copper Emporium Episode: 36 Published: 11/29/2022 Stories SBF and The No Good Very Bad Day 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 Lightning Round Tensions over broken financial promises at Foxconn ended up in a violent ...
Nov 29, 2022•51 min•Ep. 36
Pathetic Meat Bags Episode: 35 Published: 11/22/2022 Stories The Cyber Resilience act is coming for your IoT Bullshit EU Cyber Resiliency Act This past month, there was another OpenSSL vulnerability Azure Sphere Lightning Round 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 ac...
Nov 22, 2022•52 min•Ep. 35
Squeezable Deans Episode: 34 Published: 11/15/2022 Stories Layoff, layoffs everywhere and record profits for CEOs 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? Lightning Round 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�...
Nov 15, 2022•44 min•Ep. 34
Figuratively Baggels Episode: 33 Published: 11/08/2022 Stories CXL! What is it good for?!?.. well, quite a bit actually. OCP Global Summit 2022 Tech Field Day for CXL Lightning Round 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 Sol...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 33
Social Media Megafauna Episode: 32 Published: 11/01/2022 Stories Once More ‘Round The Sun 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 Lightning Round ISO 27001 updated for 2022...
Nov 01, 2022•42 min•Ep. 32
Andre The Peanut Episode: 31 Published: 10/25/2022 Stories Remote Work Reality 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...
Oct 25, 2022•48 min•Ep. 31
Inveterate Journalistic Pitbulls Episode: 30 Published: 10/18/2022 Stories HashiConf Global 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 Lightning Round Advertising company Google wades into the IoT OS game with KataOS and Sparrow projects ESNet6 Feels the Need for Speed Microsoft...
Oct 18, 2022•52 min•Ep. 30
There Are No Blue Balls Episode: 29 Published: 10/11/2022 Stories Quantum Mechanics gets it���s day in the Sweden sun 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 Communica...
Oct 11, 2022•53 min•Ep. 29
Behold the Superbook Episode: 28 Published: 10/04/2022 Stories Supercloud - It���s a thing now, so I guess we have to address it 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 Rou...
Oct 04, 2022•49 min•Ep. 28
Random Adjacent Memories Episode: 27 Published: 09/27/2022 Stories Security vs Convenience: When Convenience goes too far 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 Lightning Round Linux 6.0 Kernel Coming in the Next Week CIS Benchmarks for Azure and AWS updated to version 1.5 Different Nam...
Sep 27, 2022•42 min•Ep. 27
Just DID It On Em Episode: 26 Published: 09/20/2022 Stories Decentralized Identity Is Confusing The recently ratified Decentralized Identifier W3C standard SSI or Self-Sovereign Identity Decentralized Identity Foundation Lightning Round 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 Cry...
Sep 20, 2022•53 min•Ep. 26
Relighting Our Users Episode: 25 Published: 09/13/2022 Stories Spam Sucks, And There’s A Lot Of It 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 Lightning Round The Storage Was Within You All Along Apple Release Event Goes Exactly Like Everyone Knew It Would Apple���s iPhone userbase now m...
Sep 13, 2022•58 min•Ep. 25
Soapy Alt Dave Episode: 24 Published: 09/06/2022 Stories Best Practices are an Illusion 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) Lightning Round IRS Accidentally Makes Business Tax Return Data Public For Like��� A Year Cloudflar...
Sep 06, 2022•59 min•Ep. 24
Centralia Hairspray Challenge Episode: 23 Published: 08/30/2022 Stories Mudge Ado About Something 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 Lightning Round 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-so...
Aug 30, 2022•54 min•Ep. 23
Down With The Sickness Episode: 22 Published: 08/23/2022 Stories Because you wanted to know more about SmartNICs right? RIGHT???? 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 Lightning Round ProtonMail Suffers Second Outage...
Aug 23, 2022•58 min•Ep. 22
A Table Of Cards Episode: 21 Published: 08/16/2022 Stories 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 d...
Aug 16, 2022•48 min•Ep. 21
It Wasn���t Worth The Effort Episode: 20 Published: 08/09/2022 Stories 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 Lightning Round DuckDuckGo mostly says No, to Microsoft Comcast ramps soft policy of return to the office, based on essentia...
Aug 09, 2022•51 min•Ep. 20
The Wisdom of Fred Smellypants Episode: 19 Published: 08/02/2022 Stories 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 Lightning Round Despite Crypto Winter, Investors see a Web3 Spring in Unstoppable Domains 100TB SSDs are available; 200TB SSDs on the horizon Can IBM Prote...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 19
Synchronous Viralicity Episode: 18 Published: 07/26/2022 Stories 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 Lightning Round Mozilla en...
Jul 26, 2022•54 min•Ep. 18
Shiny Vampires in the Woods Episode: 17 Published: 07/19/2022 Stories 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 Lightning Round Linux/UNIX text editor Vi...
Jul 19, 2022•55 min•Ep. 17
DevOops I Did It Again Episode: 16 Published: 07/12/2022 Stories DevOps is a failure Ned’s tweet Lightning Round 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...
Jul 12, 2022•53 min•Ep. 16
Exactly One Giraffe Episode: 15 Published: 06/28/2022 Stories 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 Lightning Round 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 B...
Jun 28, 2022•38 min•Ep. 15
Shallow HAL 9000 Episode: 14 Published: 06/21/2022 Stories What are we going to do when AI achieves consciousness? 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 ...
Jun 21, 2022•46 min•Ep. 14
Manifest Developer Episode: 13 Published: 06/14/2022 Stories We���re all developers now and you might as well admit it Links: freeCodeCamp Learn Python Lightning Round 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 ...
Jun 14, 2022•48 min•Ep. 13
Internet Explorer Nostalgia Episode: 12 Published: 06/07/2022 Stories IT’S A ���SEARCH ENGINES AND BROWSERS ARE NECESSARY AND CURRENTLY STILL BAD��� ROUNDUP!!! 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 give...
Jun 07, 2022•48 min•Ep. 12
