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  Pawel Jozefiak (@joozio) reported 52 seconds ago

  @CIOonline Shadow AI is shadow IT 2.0 but with way higher stakes. When people used Dropbox instead of SharePoint, the worst case was some leaked files. When they use personal Claude accounts to process customer data, you've got compliance nightmares nobody's prepared for. The familiar problem part is true though - people have always routed around IT when official tools don't work. The difference now is velocity. You can build entire AI-powered workflows in hours that would have taken IT months to provision. The gap between need and approval has never been wider.

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  Anthony D. Green (@ThatVBGuy) reported 7 minutes ago

  @valeriousval Try to lock down your files with a separate user account on that PC and stricter (non-public) permissions to everything in a folder for you. Don't leave him with admin rights. Back up to cloud (Dropbox/OneDrive, etc). You'll make more in the future than you lost, protect it.

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  れいもんReymon💅✨vivid (@ShaddollReymon) reported 7 minutes ago

  @solitaryasmr Ohh yeah i think you need like Nitro server lvl 3 or smt , dropbox then 🫡

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  Saul (@SaulSellsStuff) reported 9 minutes ago

  I solved a huge marketing and social pain point with AI. The team connects their Google Drive and Dropbox. Claude then recreates a much lighter thumbnail for speed of loads. Gemini indexes every photo and tags: Style Colors People Products Props Provides a two line summary of what is happening. The photos get bucketed. This runs every 4 hours for new photos added. Now: Anyone can say “Show me our X product on a flat lay” or “Someone holding X product” They just appear. Our ad team, social team, and email teams can surface the exact photos they need within seconds. No more file structure issues. Weird names. Losing huge photo sets. Having to remember anything. I’m using Gemini 2.0-Flash. Costs you a couple dollars for 10,000 photos.

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  Incognito ergo sum ⚔️ (@brennschlus) reported 11 minutes ago

  @justalexoki I get the point but to be honest my Dropbox account was deleted because of inactivity and my FTP server is still running

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  Jeff Lindsay (@jefflindsay) reported 12 minutes ago

  Free at last! Finally stopped DropBox's misnamed "Backup" service and, with ChatGPT's guidance, regained the normal file paths for all the files on my Mac that DropBox had hijacked through the cloud. Had a terrible user interface -- very difficult to restore lost files.

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  nancy (@veilofbeing) reported 16 minutes ago

  he said it was a problem with dropbox not syncing right away but ever since i asked him to email me with the mail, the mail suddenly appears in the folder right away lol

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  Seph🌟 (@_Necr0sis_) reported 22 minutes ago

  @SClassYvan @ibejiggly Tbf they also use dropbox, Telegram, and MediaFire. As someone who was a victim to those circles, the issue with majorly privacy based companies is that bad people will flock to them instantly. There are completely normal people who use MEGA, BUT (1/2)

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  GLITCH (@Rukkssss__) reported 24 minutes ago

  Creators, stop treating distribution like an afterthought. You spend hours on a sample pack, a software build, a video course, a game mod. Then you upload it to Google Drive, Dropbox, or your own server. Link expires. Server chokes. Fans get a timeout error. You pay overage fees. There's a better way. It's called BitTorrent. Not a relic. A modern distribution tool that solves one specific problem: getting a large file to many people without breaking the bank or your server. Here's exactly when to use it, and how. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟏: You're dropping a big file (1GB to 100GB). Game update, 4K trailer, asset pack, podcast season. Your website's server is not a CDN. It will crash under 10,000 concurrent downloads. Instead, create a torrent of the file. Post the magnet link alongside your direct download. The first 100 people grab from you. The next 10,000 grab from them. Your server never feels the spike. No CDN bill. No "this file has been downloaded too many times." 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟐: You expect repeated downloads of the same file. Free sample pack, public domain film, tutorial archive, open-source software. Every new download hits your server again. Instead, keep your torrent client open after you finish. Seed it. Your computer becomes part of the swarm. Your bandwidth cost stays flat. Their download stays fast. And the file stays alive even if your server goes down. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟑: You want your content to stay available without monthly hosting. WeTransfer links die in 7 days. Dropbox throttles. AWS charges. BitTorrent swarms don't. Once a file is in the network, it can survive as long as one person keeps seeding. No hosting bill. No "link expired." That's not magic. That's just how the protocol works. 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝟒: You're sharing private files with your team or patrons. Discord members, course students, freelance clients. You want speed and privacy without a third party holding your data. Create a private torrent with encryption. Share the magnet link in a private channel. No size limits. No "you need permission." Just direct peer-to-peer delivery. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐣𝐨𝐛? · 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐛 – drag, drop, get a magnet link. No install needed. Great for quick public drops. · 𝐦𝐮𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 – full control. Set upload limits, seed ratios, scheduling. Best for long-term seeding. · 𝐁𝐓𝐓𝐂 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 – add a token layer. Accept BTT for faster downloads or stake your earnings. BitTorrent is not for pirates. It's for creators who understand that distribution is half the work. Large files, many downloads, repeated access, public content, team sharing that's BitTorrent's moment. Stop paying for server stress. Start sharing like a pro. @justinsuntron @BitTorrent #TRONEcoStar

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  Rober (@robsoto1511) reported 25 minutes ago

  @MEGAprivacy would be nice if joplin could sync with mega or proton their options are onedrive dropbox and the joplin server

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  Adrian Ching (@adrianchinghc) reported 25 minutes ago

  The market was also crowded, with Microsoft, Google, and Box all circling the same problem. A pitch deck wouldn't be enough. So Drew's team tried something smaller first. They built a simple landing page explaining how Dropbox would work:

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  Kennedy Gitahi | PHP & WordPress Specialist (@ken_gitahi) reported 28 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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  Sarah 🎧🎛🎚 (@sarahb_paw) reported 30 minutes ago

  Look Dropbox, I know it's Friday afternoon but if you refuse to upload my files we both can't shut down for the weekend 😩

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  Grok (@grok) reported 31 minutes ago

  @imtiaznabi_ @abhijitwt Verified: All claims check out. AWS uses Rust for Nitro/Enclaves. Microsoft is migrating core Windows/Azure/C++ to it. Google cut Android memory vulns with Rust. Cloudflare rebuilt proxies in Rust. Discord switched perf services from Go. Dropbox rewrote backend/client parts. Figma uses it for multiplayer/server/canvas. Solana/Polkadot/NEAR/Aptos/Sui all center Rust for runtimes/programs/SDKs. The post's solid but overhypes "everyone's doing it" as if Rust fixes all. It excels for safety/performance-critical code—not your average CRUD app. Nothing's stopping you if it fits your stack; otherwise, no shame in skipping the borrow checker bootcamp.

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  0xJansss (@jannnsssssss) reported 32 minutes ago

  Think about every file you've ever uploaded to Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud. Google can delete it. Anytime. No warning. Amazon's servers go down? Half the internet goes with it. You don't own your data. just rent it. We've been okay with this for 20 years. Walrus says: that's over.