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  6. John Morales says

    In the news: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/07/monzo-customer-language-year-in-monzo-review

    When Taylor contacted Monzo with her concerns, it told her that it “didn’t find evidence to support your complaint”. The letter from its complaint specialist went on to say: “I recognise that in your case, the automated and standardised language we used was inappropriate and caused genuine upset.” It said that to put things right, it would pay her £20 as a gesture of goodwill.

    Taylor then complained to the Financial Ombudsman Service, but its investigator effectively sided with Monzo, saying they did not think the bank needed to take any action. She appealed against the decision and her case will now be reviewed by a senior ombudsman, who will make a final decision.

  8. Jazzlet says

    20 quid as a ‘gesture of goodwill”? That’s more like a “here look at us piss on you some more”.

    Bébé I hope life calms down some for you in the near future.

  11. chigau (違う) says

    Looks OK.
    I’d prefer a whole-wheat bun.
    and a bit of peanut butter for the banana.

  12. says

    whole wheat? no thx. also not a pb fan. i think how much you like certain foods relates to how well your digestion handles them. my saliva is buff vs some foods, but pb always stays sticky in my mouth. actually for that matter i’m low key allergic to bananas, just goating them up bc someone bought too many.

  13. says

    wotta goddam nuisance. the wayback machine is slow on a good day but (idk if they throttle people who use it too much) my attempts to recover my old articles from atheismplus are hitting a wall.

  14. John Morales says

    I just looked: https://deepwiki.com/wabarc/wayback/2.2-service-architecture

    Bot summary FWIW:

    Storage architecture
    – The Internet Archive uses large distributed storage systems, not single direct‑access devices.
    – Snapshots are stored in WARC files across petabyte‑scale disk arrays and object‑storage tiers.
    – Playback reconstructs pages by assembling multiple small components (HTML + assets), which is inherently slow.

    Why it feels slow
    – Playback requires stitching many files together.
    – The service has been under heavy operational strain, including DDoS attacks and security incidents.
    – In late 2024 the Wayback Machine operated in degraded, read‑only mode while recovering from an attack.

    Throttling / rate limiting
    – No official, published rate‑limit policy exists.
    – Behaviour clearly shows implicit rate limiting: heavy access triggers slowdown or blocking.
    – Developers have raised this in GitHub issues, noting undocumented rate limits when fetching many files.

    Bottom line
    – The system is slow even under normal conditions.
    – Implicit throttling exists, though not formally documented.
    – Storage is distributed and layered; not direct‑access.
    – Recent attacks have worsened performance.

  15. says

    had a bot tell me there was explicit throttling of some kind, that times out after some hours. i didn’t bother to look at the source to confirm tho. i muddle on just the same.

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