Internet Explorer Nostalgia [12]

Hey Google, find me browsers that respect people's privacy. Zero results found? Ouch. Also, Seth Green is being a weenie about NFTs. And layoffs serve as a friendly reminder that companies are not your friend.

Show Notes

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 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

Lightning Round

• 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

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance

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Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combined years in the industry. Are we all doomed? Yes. Will the apocalypse be streamed on TikTok? Probably. Does Joni still love Chachi? Decidedly not.