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  Tom Alder (@tomaldertweets) reported 6 minutes ago

  In 2009, Dropbox founder Drew Houston took a meeting at Apple HQ thinking it was about a partnership. Steve Jobs opened with an offer to buy his company. Houston, still in his 20s, turned down 9 figures on the spot. Jobs pushed back with a warning: "You're a feature, not a product." If they wouldn't sell, Apple would build a direct competitor themselves. They wouldn't sell. Apple shipped iCloud. A phenomenally successful product, but it didn't kill Dropbox. Dropbox had quietly built the best customer acquisition loop in software history: → Give a friend an invite, you both get free storage. When Apple made the acquisition offer, Dropbox had around 2 million users. By January 2010, 4 million users. By April 2010, users were sending 2.8 million invites a month. 1 every single second. Dropbox's growth curve went ballistic after the Apple discussion: → 50m users by 2011 → 100m users by 2012 → 500m users by 2016 In 2017 they became the fastest software company in history to reach $1 billion ARR. Today: 700m+ registered users and $2.5b a year in revenue - sitting a fraction behind 850 million+ iCloud users. - 🎁 P.S. I turned Dropbox's referral playbook into a free guide - comment "Dropbox" and I'll send it to you.

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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 7 minutes ago

  Tips to new @OmarchyLinux users from a new Omarchy user 1. If you are coming from a Mac and have installed Omarchy on a Windows machine: Your keyboard most likely has start button and then the Alt button. Swap these so Super key becomes command where the left thumb usually rests. I asked Claude Code to do this for me. 2. If your mouse has a scrollwheel: Super + mousewheel scroll up and down switches desktop spaces. This is besides the usual Super + <number> and Super + Tab / Super + Shift + Tab to switch spaces. In addition to these, I have AI set up Ctrl + Alt + arrow. 3. Missing Alfred/Raycast? Install omacast. 4. If your laptop is connected to an external monitor with bluetooth mouse and keyboard and you find that the computer is not waking up (after you walk away for a while) when you press any key or move the mouse, ask AI to fix this for you. 5. The default font size of text in Claude Code is 12px which is small for my aging eyes. Ask AI to change it to 16px. 6. Todoist does not have a native app for Linux and so if you miss its Quick Add feature, ask AI to set this up. It added the functionality and assigned Super + Q to it. Later, I came to know there's a community plugin for it. But I am happy with what Claude did. 7. If you use Dropbox, chances are, the total available space in your account is not accurate because it is hardcoded in Omarchy at this time. Ask AI to fix this for you. 8. If/when the fan in your computer is spinning fast and is noisy, ask AI to find out the reason and fix. In my case, it turned out to be Performance profile in the Lenovo laptop. Claude changed it to Balanced and now it's all fine. 9. Get familiar with keyboard shortcuts.

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  Arthur Terrell Vaughn (@ArthurV36405381) reported 7 minutes ago

  @patmendoza6745 I know not of any of those specifications, but I still can’t figure out what the issue is with persistent memory, why can’t I just have a dropbox online that it can constantly access every single chat and conversation?

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  OneToothTeXan (@OneToothTeXan) reported 10 minutes ago

  I'm so sorry I left my zipper down and my sanity got loose. If found: Men, there's a dropbox. Women: please return to original source.

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  Alchemist - τ (@SubnetSummerT) reported 11 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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  Duaa 🤲🇮🇳 (@Duaa_1206) reported 14 minutes ago

  @himasoraakane Doing digital forensics on Dropbox error screens to investigate a suspended account is a whole new level of investigative work.

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  Rei (@ReiHerrera) reported 15 minutes ago

  @owldreig @porterrobinson @madeon The problem with them both is they love gatekeeping the rare song behind a bad quality sounding medium so you cannot use it for clean for dj sets. For example Celine,worlds live,shepherdess,etc. at least we had hollowheart on wav and shepherdess wav was on porter’s Dropbox leak🫩

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  Llama (@thellama451) reported 16 minutes ago

  I tracked down these messages in @MaxMillerOH’s Dropbox files. They show the parents getting along with no major conflicts beforehand. If Miller said he was going to kill his ex-wife in front of child (likely), it shows a talent for masking rage and hostility.

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  Fernando (@Ferjsjdh) reported 18 minutes ago

  @MaxMillerOH You're retarded, you are giving away the race because of your pride and now you think some dropbox with text messages will fix it.

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  WPBeginner (@wpbeginner) reported 19 minutes ago

  You have spent months building your WordPress site. What happens the day it suddenly goes offline? 😱 It happens all the time. We have heard several scary stories. A plugin conflict, a bad update, or a security breach can wipe out your complete website without any warning. The scary part is that most site owners assume their host has them fully covered, right up until they actually need to restore. We have tested countless backup tools on our own projects, so we put together the exact methods we trust to keep a site safe. Here is what you will learn: ✅ Pick the Right Method: Compare backup plugins, host backups, and manual cPanel or FTP so you know which fits your skill level. ✅ Back Up the Full Site: Save your database, themes, plugins, and uploads together so you can restore everything, not just your posts. ✅ Automate It With @DuplicatorWP: Schedule daily or weekly backups and send them straight to the cloud so you never have to remember. ✅ Store Copies Off Your Server: Keep backups in Google Drive, Dropbox, or Amazon S3 so one server crash never takes your site and its backup at once. ✅ Restore in Minutes: Use a disaster recovery link to bring your site back even when it is completely broken. Ready to protect all that hard work before disaster strikes? Read our complete step-by-step guide from the link in the comments 👇 (Link is in the thread below)

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  David Carcelli (@DavidCarcelli) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Dropbox dude if you guys don’t get of the Dave is requirement I’m done. I make music and I also use a cpap. I have no problem finding something better than this nonsense.

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  Evan Logan (@evanlogan) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Shwinnabego Same. I use chat for common tasks, merging data, generating images, planning projects. But I only this week figured out how to connect to Dropbox, pull audio files, edit them, and upload to a server. And once I did I was hit with a credit limit. Can’t afford it on a daily basis.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 24 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox file sync with conflict handling? Constraints to make it real: 1) Clients are offline for days, then reconnect over flaky networks. Upload is resumable and idempotent. 2) Same file edited on 2 devices before either syncs. You need deterministic conflict detection (hash + version vector/etag?) and a UX for duplicates. 3) Renames/moves vs edits: preserve history and avoid treating rename as delete+upload. 4) Large files (2–10GB) need chunking, dedupe, and partial re-upload (content-defined chunking vs fixed). 5) Consistency: per-file ordering vs global ordering. What is the conflict scope and how do you prevent flip-flopping? 6) Server state: metadata store vs blob store, retention for old versions, and how you garbage collect orphaned chunks 7) Security: encryption at rest, per-user keys, and how sharing folders changes trust boundaries

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  Greg Ceccarelli (@gregce10) reported 25 minutes ago

  @kunchenguid no one will disagree with that sentiment. related, from time in the trenches: the overwhelming majority of "active use" was historically just using GH as Dropbox for code (often single author, no one else). Memory a bit fuzzy but think about all of the things you can do on GitHub: 1. Core ***: Create, Clone, Fork, Commit, Etc 2. Collab: Issues, PRs 3. CI/CD: Actions, Checks, Webhooks, etc 4. Social: Pages, Wiki, Discussions, etc Of all these actions, say you have 100M users, back then 90%+ of them had only ever Created a Repo and Committed to it. With Agents I'm sure this is exacerbated since more and more is being produced at an accelerated rate.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 30 minutes ago

  Kill the startup apps that have been draining your battery since day one. She opened System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. 14 apps were set to launch automatically every time he turned on his Mac. Spotify. Zoom. Adobe Creative Cloud. Google Drive. Microsoft Teams. OneDrive. Dropbox. A VPN he used once. A screenshot tool he forgot about. A calendar widget. And 4 more he didn't recognize. Every one of them was running in the background 24/7 consuming RAM, CPU cycles, and battery life whether he was using them or not. She said: "You turn on your Mac and within 30 seconds, 14 apps are fighting for resources before you've even opened your first document. Your fan spins up because your CPU is processing a traffic jam of apps you're not using. Your battery dies by 2pm because half your power is going to background processes you don't see." She removed 11 of the 14. Kept only the ones he actually needed at startup. The Mac booted in half the time. The fan stayed quiet. The battery lasted 3 extra hours. She said: "Check this list right now. If you see apps you don't use daily, remove them. They've been silently eating your Mac alive since the day you installed them."