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Devs assessing options for MySQL's future beyond Oracle : As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control

Piece on the future for MySQL here: www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/m...

Could be forks, or could be Oracle supporting more community involvement. Expect more developments at #FOSDEM

have you tried turning it off and on again?

Congrats Danny. Hope it goes well for you!

Today is a "I'm going to eat the crisps and there's nothing you can do about it world" kind of day.

Ready salted, if you are wondering.

YouTube video by What The Hack Show S2 E5: Deepfake Executive Fraud

I recently joined Sysdig's What The Hack show in this episode examining Deepfake executive fraud, discussing why it has become such an issue and how to prevent it.

(Also, you can nose at the LEGO sets behind me.)

Thanks to @maliciarogue.bsky.social for having me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKq...

So this is taking place today - will be interesting to see how the conversation develops this afternoon.

Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.

Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.

The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

For journalists and PRs, directly after a successful conversation with an interesting spokesperson that has taken weeks to arrange:

"When's copy approval due?"

Good luck either way Matt ... I would say this is a no-lose situation for you, and that boy is definitely over-supplied in the derp department

*stares*

The military ceremony for Donald Trump is on in the background. I thought they were playing the theme tune to Monty Python's Flying Circus ...

b/w photo of an absolutely huge bloke in a huge fur coat (polar bear, apparently, which he shot himself) next to a diminutive woman in a hat (his wife Dagmar Cohn)

Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement

1) Would this be useful?
2) Is there an initiative like this already that Jess could contribute to, or does she need to create one?
3) would anyone want to get involved or support this?

I have asked the question of a legal expert. :)

Everything is fine dot GIF

In 2021, we founded FerretDB with a bold vision: to return the document database market to its open source roots by creating the leading open source alternative to MongoDB, built on Postgres. For… | ... In 2021, we founded FerretDB with a bold vision: to return the document database market to its open source roots by creating the leading open source alternative to MongoDB, built on Postgres. For yea...

I'll suggest Peter Farkas' LinkedIn post here as well, as this gives some interesting additional background on how DocumentDB has grown over 2025. The range of open source options and MongoDB-compatible options available has expanded massively this year. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

H went to Reading Festival, saw Chappell Roan ... it was great!

Pearl Jam - Mother Love Bone ‘Shine’ EP and ‘Apple’ Reissues In honor of the enduring impact of Mother Love Bone’s music, individual reissues of Shine EP and the seminal full-length debut Apple are available for preorder today with a September 26 release date!

no worries - it was only sharing pearljam.com/news/mother-...

Me, an enterprise B2B IT PR person running a podcast on cloud security for a client: ...

You, Spotify account manager: Hey, have you considered some back to school marketing campaigns?

I'm working on an article for ComputerWeekly.com around whether "pulling the plug" and taking systems/servers offline can be a way to stop an attack - and an attacker in their efforts. |... I'm working on an article for ComputerWeekly.com around whether "pulling the plug" and taking systems/servers offline can be a way to stop an attack - and an attacker in their efforts. It would be gr...

I'm currently running a poll on LinkedIn, does 'pulling the plug', or taking servers and systems offline, stop an attack and an attacker in their steps?

I would love your vote here -

www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ra...

I am very jealous! enjoy!

Richard Thompson is great - saw him at the Reading Hexagon few years back. Contemplated this year, but it was at just the wrong time for me. Hope it is a good one - full band or solo?

nice crowd - is it literary, music or other?

And you can sing the title to an Aerosmith chorus.

Kuber- net- es at the edge!

A: "So, for our rebrand. Our company relies on fans with the most incredible demand for lore, bloodshed and massive guns. Can't overestimate the guns."
B: "Yep."
A: "Fire up the font picker. Is there one called Grimdark?"
B: "No"
A: Shame. Roll a d100. that should do."

Doc Brown, from Back to the Future: Where we're going, we don't need emails.

"this email should have been a summary" is going to be the new "this meeting should have been an email"

Always fun when you see a massive organisation in the data and analysis business, that actively wants you to share its data, and then they go through a big website refresh that breaks all their links.