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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?

Some of the biggest companies in America will pay you literal cash to go travel and get an abortion in a state where it’s legal, but won’t pay you more money if you decide to keep the baby. This is beyond insane. Where are the people in tech that are fighting back against this?

Thoughts? Opinions? Comments?

It's actually sort of funny. Not for the receiving end, which would likely be able to negotiate or just suspend their service instead of owing $38k, but still. There should be a documentary on this if I'm being honest.

Today's topic: Content Delivery Networks that charge per request.

It's a common practice but it's horrific for smaller companies that can't negotiate contracts.

Fastly, CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN and more all charge for requests made to CDN deployments.

Vultr. Linode. Digital Ocean. -and more. $5/month for a not too terrible server and 1TB of egress. Not a threat until you spam someone's CDN deployment. And no, I'm not talking about 1TB. I'm talking about sending 51 billion requests a month to CDN endpoints for $5/month. Want to mitigate that? That'll cost 10x the amount per request for Google Cloud Armor or Amazon WAF (not kidding). I'm sure this actually is't a common practice, but it makes you wonder about the companies that switch from enterprise CDNs to Cloudflare.......

HTTP stress testing software like wrk is wickedly powerful and insightful. WRK can easily send 20k requests per second per core. Find a resource small enough and it's game over for the receiving end. It can easily be used as a tool for your worst enemies. The only way to mitigate it is to host your own solution, like Varnish etc. or negotiate a contract with the CDN provider, which will costs hundreds or thousands of dollars a month. Not a likely solution for small to medium sized businesses.

Thoughts? Comments? Stories? Ideas?