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Chaos Lever

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

Recent Episodes

Jan. 13, 2025

The Worst Tech Products of CES 2025 Revealed! | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to this week’s Tech News of the Week! Join us as we break down the most fascinating and sometimes ridiculous tech stories making headlines. Let's dive in! 🎙️ 🚨 **Cyber Trust Mark Labels** Starting in 2025, new "Cyber…
Jan. 9, 2025

Tech Predictions 2025: AI, RISC-V, and Big Tech Shakeups | Chaos Lever

Welcome to our 2025 Predictions episode! This week, we dive into the future of tech with bold forecasts on RISC-V, AI advancements, cloud innovations, and the evolving landscape of tech giants. From potential Google breakups…
Jan. 6, 2025

OpenAI’s Broken Promises & USB-C Victory | Tech News of the Week

Welcome to another week of tech news! Let’s dive into the biggest stories making waves: 📢 OpenAI promised a data opt-out tool for creators all the way back in May 2024... and where is it? Nowhere to be found! Despite pledgin…
Dec. 26, 2024

Bold Predictions, Bad Math, and 2024 Failures | Chaos Lever

🐶 Dogs don’t care about your sleep schedule, and apparently neither does AI, the metaverse, or the global cloud industry. Welcome to our annual Predictions Review Episode, where we celebrate how *mostly wrong* Ned was about …
Dec. 23, 2024

Free GitHub Copilot: A Taste of AI Coding | Tech News of the Week

This week on Tech News of the Week, Chris and I dive into four fascinating stories from the world of tech: from the limits of human brains to the rise of WebAssembly. Plus, we get philosophical about the ephemeral nature of …
Dec. 19, 2024

From Cray-1 to El Capitan: The Evolution of Supercomputers | Chaos Lever

Get ready for an electrifying ride through the history and evolution of supercomputers! From the groundbreaking Cray-1 to today’s mind-blowing El Capitan, we cover it all—with tangents about Interstellar, floating-point math…

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.