
Poisoned Python Package ruse ?
Surely should have been "Perfidious Poisoned Python Package Plot"
3 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2023
I remember a lot of work at the ad-agency I was posted to by my MSP employer.
Windows NT Server SP 6a was an update that popped up in late November 1999, much to everyone's annoyance as we were all SP'd on the servers going "well we're all set" after SP6 in October, and suddenly had a whole new round of app testing to perform.
I had been equipped with a rather clunky sat-phone (out of fear that the mobile network would be down) and even then the powers that be decided to have a globally orchestrated shut down on Friday 31st December when everyone SHOULD have been gearing up for the parties, we were shutting everything down globally on a truly giant party call across multiple timezones.
Then of course powering it all up again on Tuesday the 4th (because no-one wanted to work on Monday).
Fun times indeed.
I know its not strictly the "mid term price hikes" but I thought I'd chip in here with a comment about renewals. My [major UK home ISP] contract came up for renewal this month. I got the notification about a month before autoreneal.
I have FTTP with a bundled 4G backup service as I work from home a lot and I don't use conventional satellite TV but stream everything and play a lot of online games, so does my partner. I've got the FTTP modem and my router and the 4G backup on a small UPS for resilience.
Instead of just calling up the renewal team I called the cancellations team. I'd already seen what "major competitor" could offer and told them I wss unhappy and what could they do for me.
I got an offer of a bump up in bandwidth and a reduction in cost. plus a bundled Xbox subscription for 6 months. I've just saved £190 over the course of the next year, and while not much thats money that I'm not handing over to my ISP.
Just goes to show if you want to keep the cost down don't blindly accept the first offer - negotiate.