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A couple of old-fashioned IT engineers/consultants turned college professors ranting about IT

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  • 23 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 35 min
  • English

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  • S3 · E7
    February 12 · 46 min

    Schrödinger’s Documentation: It Exists Until You Need It - (Episode 160)

    We’ve all seen it. The legendary documentation. The sacred diagrams. The “fully updated” runbooks. They absolutely exist — until the moment you actually need them. Then suddenly they’re archived, outdated, in someone’s inbox from 2017, or living exclusively inside the brain of the one engineer currently on vacation. In this episode, we open the box and observe the quantum state of IT documentation: simultaneously complete and nonexistent. From ghostly Visio files to tribal knowledge passed down like ancient folklore, we explore why the most critical infrastructure artifact is also the most elusive creature in the data center ecosystem.

  • S3 · E6
    February 5 · 59 min

    ai.txt: This Website Does Not Consent to Being Smartened - (Episode 159)

    For decades, robots.txt quietly told search engines where they were welcome and where they weren’t. Then AI showed up, read everything anyway, and called it “training.” Enter ai.txt — the hypothetical line in the sand where a website politely, clearly, and possibly angrily says: no scraping, no learning, no digital photocopying of my soul. In this episode, we explore whether consent still matters on the modern web, how AI crawlers differ from classic search bots, and whether ai.txt would be a genuine technical safeguard, a legal signal, or just a beautifully naive sign taped to the internet’s fridge saying “do not touch.” Spoiler: the file is tiny. The implications are not.

  • S3 · E5
    January 29 · 50 min

    Audio Quality: We Used to Care - (Episode 158)

    Once upon a time, audio quality mattered. We argued about sound cards, speaker placement, bitrates, and whether MP3s were ruining music forever. Fast forward to today: laptops whisper, Bluetooth drops packets, compression is everywhere—and nobody seems to care. Or do they? In this episode, we explore how “good enough” became the global audio standard, why convenience beat fidelity, and how computers quietly shifted from Hi-Fi machines to voice-first productivity tools. This isn’t a nostalgic rant—it’s a reality check on how our ears, habits, and expectations have changed.

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