Poised for Data Dominance [7]

Chris puts on a Brave face about Google's AMP project, Ned adopts a basset hound and names it Istio, and we all get progressively more confused about VMware and SD cards.

Show Notes

Show Notes

Poised for Data Dominance

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.

Stories

Google AMP sucks, and a LOT of people are trying to ditch it

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

Lightning Round

• 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

The Elon Addendum

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.

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance

What is Chaos Lever Podcast?

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.