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  SeanCasGamer (@SeanCasGamer) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Shpigford @Claude There are issues with it that I’ve run into with Dropbox locking files to sync while Claude still works on them. I usually pause sync’ing while I’m doing stuff and then turn it back on when I’m done.

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  Nyan Nyan (@CatNyanpital) reported 6 minutes ago

  @thescepticalre1 Somewhat. But that's purely speculative and outside the scope. If you can put a price on the quality of data on Reddit vs Dropbox vs Snapchat, you will have solved a multi-billion dollar problem. **** you could start your own company based on this. To me, data is like commodities in that regard. Sort of like gold. You have a hole in the ground (or company) that you want to mine. The quality and amount that is able to be mined out is anyone's guess. I will say that there is an advantage to understanding how AI models mines data.

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  0xJansss (@jannnsssssss) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SuiNetwork @thewalrus @WalrusProtocol Every file you store on Google Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud — Google owns the server. Google can delete it. Google can go down. Walrus changes that. It's a decentralized storage protocol built by Mysten Labs, where your data lives across hundreds of independent nodes worldwide.

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  Kennedy Gitahi | PHP & WordPress Specialist (@ken_gitahi) reported 14 minutes ago

  The "Host Backups" Trap. "My host does backups." Great. What happens if your host account is hacked, their server fails, or a backup doesn't complete? If you don't have an off-site, redundant backup option(AWS/Dropbox/Google Drive/Other), you don't have a backup solution.

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  Andreas (@abrkn) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Dropbox paper logs me out every single day starting a few weeks ago. Login method is passkey. Please fix

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  Alex ✨🇲🇽 (@LECLRCLFTV) reported 16 minutes ago

  dealing with some issues with ko-fi on my end, so i'll upload all journals to dropbox while i get this fixed 👀

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  frank goertzen (@frankgoertzen) reported 21 minutes ago

  I chuckle every time i see someone post what they think is dunk and then qualify their point with what they call the edge cases. Dropbox is just ftp with a few edge cases. LLMs are just autocorrect with a few edge cases. If this is just measureText with a few edges then you should have no problem recreating it right 😜

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  iamAaruna (@arronnes) reported 23 minutes ago

  Tired of wasting hours hunting files across drives? Fix: Dokkio unifies Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive + more in one AI-powered search. Upload once → ask natural questions → get instant answers with sources. Result: Cut research time 70%. 🔥

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  Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported 28 minutes ago

  @JessMarinDavis Canada is having significant information problems. Young people should be taught how to internalize an information cycle of the nature of Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is mostly older people commenting.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 28 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a 24-year-old MIT student who kept forgetting his USB drive. His solution? A file-syncing service called Dropbox. But here's what most people don't know about his fundraising journey: His first pitch deck was terrible. 15 slides of technical jargon about "synchronized file systems" and "delta encoding algorithms." VCs glazed over. The breakthrough came when he made a 3-minute demo video instead. No technical explanations. Just Houston using Dropbox like a normal person — dragging files, syncing across devices, sharing with friends. That video got him into Y Combinator in 2007. → Seed round: $1.2M led by Sequoia (2007) → Series A: $7.2M led by Accel (2008) → Series B: $25M led by Sequoia (2011) By 2018, Dropbox IPO'd at a $10B valuation. The lesson: Houston didn't pivot his product — he pivoted his pitch. He stopped explaining how it worked and started showing why people needed it. Sometimes the problem isn't your idea. It's how you're selling it. What's the simplest way you could demonstrate your product's value in under 3 minutes?

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  Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported 30 minutes ago

  Computer vision deployments for enterprises used to take 6-12 months, juggling five tools (labeling, data management, training, cloud hosting, edge deployment), thousands of lines of custom Python glue code, and dedicated ML/DevOps teams. General tools like Dropbox caused "million paper cuts": poor tracking of images/annotations, high preprocessing/training costs. CV stayed trapped in research labs, out of reach for small teams. Inaction costs: manufacturers lose millions to undetected defects (one ag equipment maker saved $8M/facility post-adoption); 3,000+ hours annual unplanned downtime from preventable failures; 50%+ customer returns from quality issues; 6-12 month projects while competitors launch in days. Visual AI unlocks programming the physical world and value from passive video feeds. #AI

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  liv (@sophaaachi) reported 32 minutes ago

  @kasandraalexis_ I think the smallest, 128GB. I don't store much on their and don't use a lot of apps so I haven't ran into a problem except with photos, and that's just from the cloud in general. I have 3TB with Dropbox, so I don't get high storage devices lol.

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  Ernest Pedapati, MD (@CBrainlab) reported 34 minutes ago

  Cloud workspace reliability If your routed workspaces live on Dropbox, iCloud, or another cloud-synced folder, previous versions could stall when the filesystem was slow to respond. v0.1.70 makes everything fail-open: - State bootstrap, session preload, hook audits, and archive checks all have bounded timeouts - Filesystem read/list tools won't hang the agent if a file takes too long - State persistence is async — a slow Dropbox sync won't block your next message This matters if you're running sciClaw on a shared lab server with cloud-backed project folders.

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  AISauce (@aisauce_x) reported 37 minutes ago

  @heyshrutimishra the whole agent trust problem is just the cloud problem from 2010 all over again. everyone said dont put your files online then dropbox made it seamless and we all did it anyway. agents will win the same way. not by solving security but by making the risk feel invisible

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  David Cramer (@zeeg) reported 38 minutes ago

  @ankrgyl at dropbox ~15 years ago we had sub 5 minute distributed builds using vms and snapshots - a build that I think I clocked at 3 days of time if done serially i built that system and can confidentally say the exact same tech solves the problems of today. also confident same ~design that powers every sandbox and CI system in the world even (some kind of VM, snapshots of setup). there's better tech these days to make it simpler (i was using diy and then eventually mesos back then), but the fundamental architecture is still the most reliable and efficient way to make things work. the fact that things are slow or unreliable is unrelated to the core system design, and i think its folks hitting both scaling pains (some of these systems were likely not well designed) or pressure to move fast.