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Chaos Lever Podcast

A tech podcast tracking emerging trends in IT and why they're all terrible.

Recent Episodes

Oct. 14, 2024

Tech News of the Week - 10/14/2024

🎙️ Tech News of the Week – October 2024 | Hard Drive Failures, Tesla's Robotaxi, and Wimbledon Goes Automated! Join hosts Ned and Chris in this week's Tech News of the Week podcast as they explore the latest developments in …
Oct. 10, 2024

When AI Pretends to Be Your CEO

AI is everywhere, and it's not just helping the good guys. In this episode, we dive deep into the world of AI and cybersecurity. From AI-enhanced phishing attacks to deepfakes and malware, we explore how bad actors are using…
Oct. 7, 2024

Tech News of the Week - 10/07/2024

Gallium Is The New Black | Flexible Chips, AR Glasses, and More Tech News In this episode, we explore cutting-edge tech like Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) semiconductors, the potential of flexible processors like Pragmati…
Oct. 3, 2024

You Had Me At EHLO... with Dylan Beattie

Join Ned and Chris in this episode of Chaos Lever, where they explore the fascinating and sometimes bizarre history of email and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Special guest Dylan Beattie, software development con…
Oct. 1, 2024

Tech News of the Week - 09/30/2024

In this episode, we discuss how Google is improving Android security with Rust, significantly reducing memory-related vulnerabilities and enhancing developer productivity. We also dive into NIST's latest revision of its Digi…
Sept. 26, 2024

The Main in the Frame Stays Mainly In The IB … Aim?

Remember the movie **Hackers** and its fictional supercomputer, The Gibson? While The Gibson might be fantasy, mainframes are still very much a reality in our modern computing world! In this episode, we'll journey through so…

Recent Blog Posts

Intro To Quantum 101, part 1: Light is Crazy

2025 Will Be The United Nations Year Of Quantum Science and Technology So that’s pretty cool. They decided on 2025 because 2025 marks the officially unofficial 100th year since quantum mechanics became a real, formalized, and accepted……

WINS Isn't DNS

Last week I spent entirely too much time talking about DNS, so this week as a fresh change of pace, I’ll be talking about… DNS. You’re welcome. Realistically, you should probably go back and listen to that episode or read the blog…

It's Always DNS

There are few technologies as foundational to the modern internet as DNS. Actually, let me revise that. There are few technologies as foundational to networking as DNS. It forms the foundation for name resolution on basically every network big and s…

About the Hosts

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Chris Hayner

Angry Old Man

Our story starts with a young Chris growing up in the agrarian community of Central New Jersey. Son of an eccentric sheep herder, Chris’ early life was that of toil and misery. When he wasn’t pressing cheese for his father’s failing upscale Fromage emporium, he languished on a meager diet of Dinty Moore and boiled socks. His teenage years introduced new wrinkles in an already beleaguered existence with the arrival of an Atari 2600. While at first it seemed a blessed distraction from milking ornery sheep, Chris fell victim to an obsession with achieving the perfect Pitfall game. Hours spent in the grips of Indiana Jones-esque adventure warped poor Chris’ mind and brought him to the maw of madness. It was at that moment he met our hero, Ned Bellavance, who shepherded him along a path of freedom out of his feverish, vine-filled hellscape. To this day Chris is haunted by visions of alligator jaws snapping shut, but with the help of Ned, he freed himself from the confines of Atari obsession to become a somewhat productive member of society. You can find Chris at coin operated laundromats, lecturing ironing boards for being itinerant. And as the cohost on the Chaos Lever podcast.

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Ned Bellavance

Curious Human

Ned is an industry veteran with piercing blue eyes, an indomitable spirit, and the thick hair of someone half his age. He is the founder and sole employee of the ludicrously successful Ned in the Cloud LLC, which has rocked the tech world with its meteoric rise in power and prestige. You can find Ned and his company at the most lavish and exclusive tech events, or at least in theory you could, since you wouldn’t actually be allowed into such hallowed circles. When Ned isn’t sailing on his 500 ft. yacht with Sir Richard Branson or volunteering at a local youth steeplechase charity, you can find him doing charity work of another kind, cohosting the Chaos Lever podcast with Chris Hayner. Really, he’s doing Chris a huge favor by even showing up. You should feel grateful Chris. Oaths of fealty, acts of contrition, and tokens of appreciation may be sent via carrier pigeon to his palatial estate on the Isle of Man.