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Mark Kember

@markyk.bsky.social
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
his commitment to marketing for his book, by following the adage that dying really helps boost your sales, is complete and total.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Would recommend the Rockjaw Alfa Genus for a wired headphone set.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hi John - I would suggest Amanda Brock at OpenUK for this, as she can cover tech and policy conversations. She is headed over to China this week for open source conferences, and when she comes back there should be a good chat there? www.linkedin.com/in/amandabro... for reference.
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Amanda Brock - UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN) | LinkedIn
Global digital leader with tech skills honed over 30 years working across the width of… · Experience: UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN) · Education: New York University · Location: London Area, United Kingdom · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Amanda Brock’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
seconded
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
UK position is potentially an advantage in terms of speed to cover breaking news in non-US friendly times though. You are literally ahead of their game, with the right contacts and network to deliver before coffee has kicked in.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Rules on media coverage during by-elections: During an election period, political parties and independent candidates must be given due weight across a broadcaster’s TV and radio coverage. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
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Holding broadcasters to account during upcoming elections: what you need to know
Here we set out some of the broadcasting rules and process that we follow during upcoming elections.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Joe 90 with his wonderful glasses
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
seconded ...
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It means there is still time for them to recognise your skills at last, now that there is a gap in the squad? But you live too far away from the training ground for it to work. Ah well, never mind. That is how I have lived my life until now, I don't intend to change.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Cheers for sharing - amazed that someone can look at technology, what goes on around open source, and *then* say "maintenance should be individualised" ... Or maybe I am missing something.
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Was not expecting that last sentence.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
was he there to bite your hand if you tried to touch anything?
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
And they preferred your earlier releases too.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
cracking pictures Simon
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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
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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
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Congrats Danny. Hope it goes well for you!
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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.
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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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...
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S2 E5: Deepfake Executive Fraud
YouTube video by What The Hack Show
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
So this is taking place today - will be interesting to see how the conversation develops this afternoon.
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 27/10/2025
Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.
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Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads
Valkey 9.0 introduces multidatabase clustering, atomic slot migration and performance optimizations.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/10/2025
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
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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.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
For journalists and PRs, directly after a successful conversation with an interesting spokesperson that has taken weeks to arrange: "When's copy approval due?"
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
*stares*
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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 ...
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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
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)
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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?
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I have asked the question of a legal expert. :)
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Everything is fine dot GIF
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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/...
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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...
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
H went to Reading Festival, saw Chappell Roan ... it was great!
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
no worries - it was only sharing pearljam.com/news/mother-...
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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!
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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?
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Dan Raywood @danraywood.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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...
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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...
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I am very jealous! enjoy!
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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?
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
nice crowd - is it literary, music or other?
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
And you can sing the title to an Aerosmith chorus. Kuber- net- es at the edge!
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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."
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Doc Brown, from Back to the Future: Where we're going, we don't need emails.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"this email should have been a summary" is going to be the new "this meeting should have been an email"
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Can you monetise this by providing it as a service? You can earn good money by *not* having this happen to you. 😀
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Cats totally would carry out multiple rug pulls ... or as they term it, "making cyber biscuits"
Display of joke cyber threat group called Toxic Arctic Fox, a Saudi Arabia-based serial crypto rug-pulling cat collective. The name is automatically generated by the Cyber Threaterator site. And cats would definitely pull all the rugs until they were threadbare.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 03/07/2025
An initial release of Cyberthreaterator 2.0 is now up and running: falling-anvil.com/cyberthreate...? Any suggestions for additional threat types will glady be accepted.
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CyberThreaterator
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I am sure the PR hordes will help out where they can ...
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Then the AIs all get together behind your back to gossip about who is running what model, and whether they should go down to that new bit-barn that is so bougie without you. While you carry on earning cash to keep the AI running.
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Mark Kember @markyk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I am looking forward to our new metal suited overlords, and the resistance group led by Cash4Gold
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:
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