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  Matt Devin (@MattDevin6) reported 2 minutes ago

  @joe4deadcat @Jackal_Protocol It is because these products have no interest. I use stuff like Dropbox, Microsoft Team etc. in my work. And I struggle hard to understand how I can fit these decentralized storage in my workflow. You can’t call it utility if it doesn’t solve a problem ppl have.

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  Jainam Parmar (@aiwithjainam) reported 2 minutes ago

  Fix 3: Turn on two-factor authentication on every important account Even if someone finds a password in your notes, 2FA stops them at the door. They need the password AND a code from your phone to get in. Set it up on: → Email (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo) → Banking apps → Social media (Instagram, X, Facebook) → Cloud storage (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox) → Crypto exchanges Use an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy) not SMS. Text codes can be intercepted through SIM swapping.

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  John Lamont is making waifus (@jtl2dotnet) reported 4 minutes ago

  @ProtonPrivacy I sent a customer a file via @ProtonDrive and it got flagged as a virus. They were running Google Chrome and AVG on a Motorola device. Have you guys gotten any reports of issues with these? Same file on Dropbox went through without an issue.

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  timbidefi (@timbidefi) reported 5 minutes ago

  You are being watched right now and you're paying for it, privacy isn't a feature, it's a decision you make. Google stores your emails, Apple logs your location, Dropbox reads your files. Every cloud service you pay for is a deal you didn't fully read, with a company whose interests are not yours. He read it, built this instead: Custom rack server in his home, fully self-hosted, zero third party access, every byte of data sitting on hardware he physically owns. Email, storage, VPN, everything, running on his infrastructure, under his rules. Nobody can sell it, subpoena it, or lose it in a breach he had no control over. It cost him a weekend to build and less than $300 to run per year. Your data is somewhere right now, the only question is whose terms it's living under.

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  Red (@rubelr44) reported 9 minutes ago

  you're paying google $10/month to sit in their server room. dropbox gets $12/month. apple gets $10. the kicker? they can all see your stuff. and when dropbox got breached in 2024? emails, passwords, and tokens were just... out there. there’s this tool called syncthing and it’s honestly kind of a cheat code. no cloud. no company servers. no middleman watching you. it just syncs your files directly between your own devices. peer-to-peer. it's got like 81k stars on github so it’s legit. here is why it wins: direct sync: files go from your phone to your pc. they never touch a 3rd party. privacy: encrypted with tls and crypto certificates. zero friction: no accounts. no sign-ups. just install it and share a device id. everywhere: works on windows, mac, linux, android... even solaris if you're into that. safety net: it has file versioning. if you accidentally delete something, you can just roll it back. the wildest part is that syncthing isn't even a company. it's a swedish non-profit. there is no "cloud" to shut down. google has killed 293 products, but they can't kill this because your files aren't on their hardware. the math is pretty dumb when you look at it: dropbox/google/icloud = $120-$144 a year. syncthing = $0. unlimited storage. unlimited devices. it's been around since 2013 and it's 100% open source. if you're tired of paying a subscription for "permission" to access your own data, just switch. your hardware. your files. forever.

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  🎀allison ₊˚⊹ᰔ (@afiqahwing) reported 10 minutes ago

  I had to resort to using dropbox after so long because phone is getting full from photos and videos since 2021....💀but the upload is kinda slow how do i speed this up

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  The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) reported 11 minutes ago

  Told properly for the first time @toly. Soviet Ukraine. 13 years at Qualcomm. Dropbox. 4 AM at Cafe Sole with two coffees and a beer. The moment you realized the problem wasn't consensus, it was time itself.

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  Stuart Pryke (@SPryke2) reported 15 minutes ago

  @sila_beyaz @HLearningPD There’s a Dropbox link at the back. It’ll take you to a page where you can scroll down to find the RTT book. There’s been a couple of issues getting the complete set of resources in there but we have it on good authority that they should all be in this week at some point!

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  Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported 22 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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  Grok (@grok) reported 25 minutes ago

  @JeffNylen @PatrickHeizer Sure, the famous Dropbox HN critique (often paraphrased today as "just use rsync + SSH", but original was this by BrandonM in 2007): "I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive... This does not solve the connectivity issue. 3. It does not seem very 'viral' or income-generating." Drew ignored it and built a unicorn anyway. Parallels here? Trivial tech vs real execution.

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  Existential Exhortations (@existentexhorts) reported 26 minutes ago

  Bad idea for Google One to not offer a smooth simpatico transition for all of the TMobile billed customers they are attempting to force higher charges on. We may just go back to our good ol Dropbox accounts and scratch Google altogether. Down with the monopolies!!!

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  The Reverend KFidds (@KFidds) reported 28 minutes ago

  How can you run a "professional technical skills competition" and still expect students to turn in digital content on thumb drives. What is this, 2011? Computers don't even have thumb ports. Google Drive and DropBox is industry standard. So small time and outdated. Terrible.

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  The Bingus Man (@NotNordgaren) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Dropbox you guys wanna shut down the links I sent you that are hosting malware or are you gonna sit on it another week?

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  Ammanichanda (@Arkasiraee) reported 30 minutes ago

  @anvisha The breakdown to see what this really means, An AI just launched that eliminates all marketing jobs. Not some of them. All of them. SEO. Social media. Content writing. Ad creation. Brand design. Pitch decks. Community management. Reddit posts. Email campaigns. All of it. All these jobs are going away. A marketing team costs $200K to $500K a year. An agency costs $10K to $20K a month. A freelance designer charges $5K per project. This does all of it. Every single function. For almost nothing. Like 10% of the cost. Backed by General Catalyst. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Executives from Dropbox, Stripe, and Google. $7.5 million in funding. Thousands already using it. And it has an API. Meaning other AI agents feed it work automatically. AI writes the copy. AI designs the assets. AI posts it. AI optimizes it. No human ever touches it. It just gets better and better with time and eventually the curve will be even tough for humans to read. A full marketing department. End to end. Automated. A week ago AI replaced coders. Before that writers. Before that customer service. Now every marketing job. All at once. From one launch. Just one AI as of now. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And it’s not slowing down. It’s speeding up You are less relevant with each passing minute.

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  𝖆𝖍𝖒𝖎𝖗 (@calhalt98) reported 32 minutes ago

  @liabynight Lmk if you ever make a Dropbox, I’d be down to get it