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https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html

I got captchad on Bloomberg and Chrome started using 100% of my cpu. Just wanted to know if this is illegal because I have a 13900ks and I haven't optimized my mb settings so it overheated my computer. What a shitty tactic. Might just report it to ic3.gov

I'm half joking, but really, does anyone know about the legality of this, and does it behave the same way for you?

They’re fighting back censorship by using open source tools out there. Pretty cool. I wish I saw more companies doing this in general. Custom solutions excite me.

Which social media app do you think has the best design? This can include UX or UI design. Apparently most people don't pay attention to fonts, symbols and other stuff closely, but for those of us that do, which app speaks to you the most? This can really be any app, but preferably one of the more known social media apps.

For me, I've used Twitter probably the most by far, so I might be biased. They have a great black dark mode. The font is genuinely so cool. The high contrast labels and icons are so pleasing to look at. The profile pages are cool and overall, the app layout makes the most sense to me in terms of the replies and features. Apparently Twitter is one of the more confusing apps to use, but Reddit is insanely confusing to me. When you look at social media and the internet overall, Twitter and Bootstrap seem to have had the biggest influence on app and website design, so many apps have similar features that Twitter does.

My least favorite is probably Reddit and Snapchat. Snapchat is pretty smooth to use, but the colors and bubble-like design just doesn't do it for me, and the profiles and searching thing is very confusing. Reddit is just a horrifically slow app and replies to posts are insanely annoying to sift through. I find myself closing every first tier replies so I can read replies instead if replies to replies. It's a confusing mess and there's just about nothing on the app that makes sense to me, which is interesting considering Quora, Twitter and Reddit are essentially the same thing and apparently had some of the same people on their design teams.

There's plenty of more stuff I like about Twitter, but the main thing is that fact that I prefer Twitter's design in general over other apps.

What about you?

So Limelight Networks (now officially Edgio) has acquired Yahoo's Edgecast and Layer0. All three seem have their own infrastructures. Layer0 uses Varnish, not too sure what Limelight uses and I'm almost entirely sure that Edgecast uses custom software for their infrastructure.

Edg.io is alive and well, but how in the world are they going to merge all three different infrastructures together? Even their ip-ranges? I feel like it would take at least a year to fully merge the worldwide networks and technologies to become somewhat consistent in speed and performance.

EGIO stock hasn't risen and nobody seems to really be talking about this at all. Maybe it's just the time period we're in but this seems like a big deal. This pretty much makes Edgio the largest and fastest CDN in the world.

Thoughts? Insight? Comments?