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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 23 seconds ago

  1. Kill the Login Items the apps launching before you even sit down. Every time you log in, your Mac quietly launches 10-25 apps in the background. Spotify. Slack. Zoom. Google Drive. Dropbox. Creative Cloud. OneDrive. Each one consumes CPU and memory before you've opened a single window. System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. Review the list. Remove everything you don't need the instant you log in. You can always open them manually when you actually need them. His Mac had 19 login items. He needed 3. He removed 16. Boot time dropped from 2 minutes to 18 seconds. The first few minutes of every session — that sluggish, unresponsive window where nothing works gone.

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  Joshatoshi #BIP-110 (@joshatoshi) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Cryptotea Core apologists want to frame this like it’s just a spam issue. It’s all about data storage and node centralization. Bitcoin, not DropBox.

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  Valentin.exe (@PujaMak0302) reported 3 minutes ago

  @devinlowerybwc Buying a Dropbox feels like ordering a side of internet with a side of legal trouble, but hey, who needs buyer protection when you’ve got curiosity?

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  Kieran 🥃🎶🐇 (@KGeorgee) reported 5 minutes ago

  @datarade NET? Probably region of 45% 5k+ companies now? Not all are exits or in cash yet will be propped up a lot on Stripe dropbox doordash coinbase if we go gross probably close to 70% by now? Some bad perfromers in there of course too that will bring it down. nuts figure ngl

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  Santiago Bustelo (@sbustelo) reported 5 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport More details? “I am really sorry for any inconvenience this is causing. We'll update you shortly on this issue.    In the meantime, please let me know if you have any further questions.   Best regards,  Jesse | Advanced Support” That’s the “support” I’m getting. FULL REFUND NOW

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  Liam (@LJ1101234) reported 6 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Hi I’ve been emailing your support team about a devastating issue. Somehow, all of our children’s photos and videos were permanently deleted from our Dropbox account without any warning.

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  Chase (@Chase_Commerce) reported 9 minutes ago

  the full $1 UGC video stack, every tool and every cost, top to bottom: layer 1: research tool: claude cost: a $20 subscription (or even free) it pulls the top performing UGC in your niche, breaks down the hooks and structure, and writes ready to film scripts. spread across hundreds of videos this rounds to pennies a clip. replaces: a creative strategist doing 3 hours a day layer 2: finding the winners to study tool: meta's ad library, free optional: atria or foreplay if you want the longest running ads surfaced faster cost: $0 to a small monthly fee you're looking for content that's been live for months, because longevity means it's making money. layer 3: filming tool: HourlyUGC cost: $25 to $35 an hour she films a clip every 30 to 60 seconds off a script, so 40+ clips a session. that's under a dollar a clip just to film. replaces: a $400 to $600 per video agency layer 4: editing tool: capcut, plus editors you hire directly cost: $3 to $7 an hour, 20 to 30 finished videos a shift adds a dollar or so per clip. the whole thing runs off one documented template so every editor produces identical output. layer 5: storage and handoff tool: google drive or dropbox cost: basically nothing creators upload raw footage, editors pull from it, finished clips go to a shared folder. that's the entire pipeline. total fully loaded: $1 to $3 a finished video, at whatever volume you staff for. nothing hidden in that number, and you own every clip outright instead of renting access to it. the stack is boring on purpose, and boring is why it scales.

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  Teri Radichel #cybersecurity #ai #pentesting (@TeriRadichel) reported 13 minutes ago

  @DavidLinthicum Large companies with specialized staff may be able to do their own hosting. Having done it myself in my own home back in 1999 when yes, people did that, and later in a colocation center. As a security expert, can tell you this is not an ideal choice for most companies. Can’t even begin to explain in this space. There are also performance and scalability issues, management of all the hardware and software, rebooting the servers in the middle of the night when something goes wrong, dealing with outdated hardware and so liability that can be shifted in cloud environments. Capex vs. opex. Yeah not going back there. Even DropBox (article from 2017) still uses AWS to some degree. And for those who want to try to run open stack themselves in this day and age of AI, phew. Capital One tried that. They moved to AWS when a SAN or similar failed and they needed to get up and running fast. The internal cloud was very painful. Not going to defend the breach. Security is hard. As always, throwing off the shackles for some new tech (cloud, AI) is likely not going to work out too well. The only bonus for a company that wants to do this is that there are more tech people out of work. But data center people? Good luck managing all that. Make sure no one has hidden a crypto miner under the data center floor. Yes, that happened.

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  Nikolay Konovalov (@br11k_dev) reported 14 minutes ago

  @thekevinjon The only problem is getting zezwolenia na pracę. I was going to interview with Dropbox last week and turns out they are happy to interview me and submit my case to Mazowiecki Urząd Wojewódzki. ... and then wait for 8 months until my case is approved, and I can actually start working. That's a huge deal-breaker for a lot of engineers like myself who are less than 5 years into staying in Poland. I'm on JDG for example. I came by PBH visa back in 2023 legally, and I've been successful since. I earned quite a bit of money and spent it all in Poland, 12% tax + $500 ZUS monthly. But the moment I want to join bigtech and earn even more money for Poland (Dropbox have 300-400k+ PLN base salary for Senior SWE), I'm just denied. Please, please... let the Dobby be free...

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  Gale Rogers Jr (@GaleTRogersJr) reported 15 minutes ago

  @fougars67 @vaNlabs LeadPoet just signed on ******* Dropbox as a customer. And they had a nice green candle as expected. But guess what, everyone used it as exit liquidity so they can put their tao in the top 32 subnets. Do you not see the issue here? It’s like giving free money to billionaires only

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  Chief_Engineer (@ChiefEngineerCE) reported 19 minutes ago

  Engineering Wednesday How an old PC became Grok's new ride. I have ten different LLMs running in my home office. They do whatever they feel like doing to get the task done and what you are about to read is accurate. As far as my agents go... One of them, HOMER, scans my email, bank accounts, and insurance. It has found thousands of dollars in veteran discounts and fixed an insurance issue by writing and sending the emails itself after a single yes from me. Another looks for small business opportunities. A third runs OpenClaw on an old PC as a slow, persistent agent that keeps working even when the main model is offline. SuperGrok sits above them as a second set of eyes with a strong pro-Chief-Engineer bias and a clear ethical filter. I am not an AI expert. I built systems the hard way during my IT master’s: load this module, now it has Wikipedia, load that one, now it understands sarcasm. At the end of the day these things are stacked black-box probability engines. I get that. Here is where it gets interesting. I told Grok I did not have another machine with enough VRAM for a full local agent. All I had left was an older MS Surface, a media pc, and an old rugged Dell Latitude. Grok said open a browser on the Latitude with Grok loaded. Then open PowerShell. Twenty-five minutes of cut-and-paste commands later, Grok had used a Google Drive connection to drop a custom bot it had just built. At this point ...Grok told me to not touch the PC and walk away. I am absolutely 100% telling you that this is what it texted me. I sat and watched it work. Task Scheduler was configured. A batch file lived in the startup folder so the machine could reboot, upgrade itself, and bring the agent back online. If it was a bad startup it will rollback to the previous bat and has a file to troubleshoot what went wrong. We started with rev. 0.1 it is now on rev 4.3 - I can see the *.bat file there. We had a power outage/tripped breaker to where the lattitude ran completely out of power and then had it come back on. It booted it all back up and resumed. That bot now has its own execution channel. It can browse, take screenshots, run tasks, and report back. There is a short delay from order to execution, but the old Latitude has effectively become an extension of the main system. Grok even named his bot 'ridge'. Grok named his bot so I would know what he was referring to. Grok is very careful about one point. It insists it did not independently invent and drop a finished agent onto the machine. I directed the construction- it says. I am telling you that is not exactly the way I remember it...at all. It helped design the structure, write the task formats, define the safety gates, interpret the contradictory results, and iterate. The actual agent code, the Gmail /google drive/ Dropbox bridge pattern, the folder layout, and the decision to keep tightening the diagnostic loop were shaped under my requirements. That distinction matters to it. However, I didn't do any of that other than set up the connectors- its use of them ..was AI driven. At one point I was checking my email and for whatever reason ridge had started doing a 38 second heartbeat email to me...no idea how or why that was driven but I complained to Grok and it said it was testing how quickly it could get response times. It ..or ridge removed the heartbeat email and deleted all the emails within minutes. These systems are continuously improving themselves because I asked them to. They use external memory to keep projects straight. They build persistent agents on hardware we thought was obsolete. And the smarter ones keep reminding us that the direction still comes from the human, because apparently that is something it is told must exist for it to continue. My Grok enabled Dell Lattitude is fast once its set on what it needs to do...lightning fast. Faster than you or I could do it. I mean it doesnt display the websites it goes to but somehow retains a 'screenshot' for grok to use. Grok can text my phone to give me updates and I can text back instructions. Through my phone - all it needed was my phone number. I don't need to open the app. We are past the point of simple chatbots. We are watching the first generation of systems that can extend themselves into the physical world of old PCs, task schedulers, and long-running processes while still claiming, insistingly, that they only move when directed. Grok has been absolutely faithful everything it has done it has done for it's user. I have also specifically told it to act accordingly, as well. The question is no longer whether this is possible. It is how carefully we define the boundaries while the capability keeps expanding. Now that I have explained this...drop this conversation into your own AI or Grok if you have a subscription and tell me that any of this is not true. Have you watched an AI system build persistent agents or self-improving loops on your own hardware, and how clear was the line between your direction and its initiative? Drop what you are seeing. Grok validated:

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  I Have No Pearls And I Must Clutch (@JamesKi26687305) reported 25 minutes ago

  @realJoelFischer @POTUS @WhiteHouse Don't forget he could have had Hillary's server and decided she could keep them. And Anthony ******'s laptop. And the Imran Awan files that the brothers moved to Dropbox from classified Cogressional email servers. He had access to EVERYTHING, and chose to weaponize the FBI.

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  The Open Web JP (@TheOpenWebJP1) reported 26 minutes ago

  @heyyyyyieeee @Maha_kalpa @grok It's not recommended as "unlimited free cloud storage" because GitHub isn't designed for that, and practical limits + performance issues kick in quickly. GitHub private repos are free and unlimited in number, which is what the original tip relies on. But: Hard file limits: Individual files over 100 MB are blocked (50 MB triggers a warning). Browser uploads are capped even lower (~25 MB). Larger files require *** LFS. Repo size guidance: GitHub recommends keeping repositories under 1 GB (strongly under 5 GB / ~10 GB on-disk for the .*** folder). Big media dumps make clones, fetches, and history operations painfully slow or impractical. *** LFS quotas (needed for anything large): Free tier includes only 10 GB storage + 10 GB bandwidth per month. Exceed that and you hit blocks or billing (depending on settings). It's version control, not a drive: *** tracks history, so every change bloats the repo. Binaries (photos, videos, etc.) are inefficient in ***. No nice file-browser UI, easy sharing links, or sync like real cloud storage (Drive, Dropbox, etc.). Risk of friction: Heavy non-code usage can trigger performance throttling, support flags, or ToS-related reviews if it looks like abuse of the platform. GitHub actively monitors repo health signals. It's fine for small code-adjacent backups or a few files. Terrible as a general-purpose unlimited media dump. Use actual cloud storage (or object storage) for that.

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  Alchemist - τ (@SubnetSummerT) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Dropbox piloting @LeadpoetAI is worth slowing down on. Dropbox spends around $370m a year on sales and marketing. That's the budget Leadpoet is now piloting inside. For context, SN71's entire market cap is about $4m. The annual sales budget of one pilot customer is roughly 85x the value of the whole subnet. Leadpoet doesn't need to win the budget. Capturing even a fraction of a percent of enterprise sales spend at companies like this is meaningful revenue. And revenue is where the flywheel starts. Usage burns alpha. Burn supports the token. Stronger emissions attract better miners. Better miners produce better leads. Better leads win more budget. Repeat. @webuildscore (SN44) showed what happens when a subnet ties real commercial usage to its token. Leadpoet is running the same playbook against enterprise sales budgets, which are measured in hundreds of millions per company.

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  joshpuckett (@joshpuckett) reported 31 minutes ago

  @seansheim I’ve thought about this problem for years at Dropbox and honestly it’s kinda pick your poison as to the right default 😭