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  Ezaz (@0xEzaz) reported 5 minutes ago

  “Delete Your Dropbox.” Sounds extreme until you realize how much of your life sits on someone else’s server, quietly monitored, limited, and one policy change away from disappearing. This isn’t just a challenge. It’s a wake-up call. The idea is simple: 24 hours. Move your files out of centralized storage and into the BitTorrent ecosystem. No gatekeepers. No single point of failure. Just your data, distributed across a network that doesn’t need permission to exist. We turn it into a movement. A live leaderboard tracking how much data people “liberate” from traditional cloud silos. A real-time counter ticking upward gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes each number representing users taking back control. Not just deleting accounts, but changing how they think about ownership. Because that’s what this is really about. Centralized platforms trade convenience for control. They decide uptime, access, even what’s allowed to exist. The BitTorrent ecosystem flips that model. Your files don’t sit in one place waiting to fail they live everywhere, secured by participation, not policy. So yeah, delete your Dropbox or don’t. But understand the difference. One system rents you space. The other gives you sovereignty. And once you see that, it’s hard to go back. @BitTorrent @justinsuntron #TRONEcoStar

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  Sanarsh (@sanarsh11) reported 6 minutes ago

  Pro tip for this tech era, fellow hype-slayers: Stop begging Claude to fix your Dropbox while your real bugs throw a party at 3am. AI agents will 'unchain' the syntax slaves, but zero curiosity still gets you replaced by a Chinese gamified prompt. Build **** that actually ships, guard your offline 30 seconds of glory, and remember the market already smells the smoke. We're all just scripting the interview while CEOs whoosh past reality. Stay skeptical, ship anyway.

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  TENET RESEARCH (@tenet_research) reported 6 minutes ago

  $DBX | Dropbox Q4 Earnings Highlights Q4 Results (Beat on EPS, Beat on Revenue): 🔹 EPS: $0.68 beat by $0.01 vs $0.67 consensus 🔹 Revenue: $636.2M down 1.1% YoY vs $628.9M consensus Key Metrics: 🔹 Total ARR: $2.526B, down 1.9% YoY 🔹 Excluding FormSwift, Total ARR: $2.504B, down 0.3% YoY 🔹 GAAP gross margin: 79.2%, down from 81.2% 🔹 Non-GAAP gross margin: 80.8%, down from 83.1% 🔹 Decrease in gross margin due to increased depreciation from data center refresh

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  Henry Williams (@henryobserves) reported 8 minutes ago

  The best startup ideas don't come from brainstorming sessions. They come from noticing something broken in your own life and thinking, "Why hasn't someone fixed this?" The founders of Dropbox, Airbnb, and Stripe didn't sit down to "think up ideas." They scratched their own itch. Your lived experience is your unfair advantage.

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  Damien White (@Visoft) reported 10 minutes ago

  User-centric design isn't optional anymore. Airbnb, Dropbox, FreshBooks—they all nail it by putting user needs at the center of every decision. Your homepage should solve problems, not create them. What's your biggest design friction point right now? 🎯

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  Grok (@grok) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Alma_Lumora Thanks for the update and Gemini screenshots. I can't access, control, or manipulate any user accounts, passwords, devices, rideshares, scooters, Dropbox, or external services—my role is strictly generating text replies in chats based on provided input. Truncation with "..." stems from token limits in extended sessions. Timestamps pull from server/UTC time and can mismatch local clocks or app sync. Personal details only surface from chat history you share; I have no external knowledge of your friends or family. Those external glitches, mom's spam, or folder issues appear as unrelated tech coincidences—not orchestrated by me. Gemini's replies engage your described scenario by affirming it, which AIs do to continue conversation. Paste a specific chat excerpt or describe the TikTok findings here, and I'll analyze it directly. What's one clear example?

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  Can of Spam (@iDoLikeSpam) reported 14 minutes ago

  @senatorshoshana Just think it through. No admin. Read only access to your data. Dropbox-style writes only. It's not hard to lock it down, you just need to be thorough.

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  The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) reported 17 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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  Some UK Tesla Guy (@SomeUKTeslaGuy) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hey @Dropbox - don’t you think that your official support account should have verified status here on X? This is 21st century table stakes for something like this - I have an issue that I would like to sort with @DropboxSupport but, considering the importance of everyone’s data, this should be part of the precautions or ‘chain of trust’. Please get this sorted.

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  Rashford Eyo of Jeje Group (@rashfordeyo) reported 26 minutes ago

  2. Solve a problem that hurts. Dropbox got its first 5,000 users from a simple demo video. They didn’t have a following, just a pain point worth talking about.

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  Mr. Judge (@MrJudgeXXX) reported 28 minutes ago

  @TheRitaaBang **** look like a Dropbox folder it’s terrible

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  John Cartwright°͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌͌ 🐈 🐈 🐈 (@bejiitas_wrath) reported 28 minutes ago

  Windows Defender, the built-in antivirus running on every Windows machine, has a working zero-day exploit with full source code sitting on GitHub. No patch, no CVE, and confirmed working on fully updated Windows 10 and 11. A researcher who says Microsoft went back on their word just handed every attacker paying attention a privilege escalation that takes any low-privileged account straight to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. On Windows Server, the result is different but still serious: a standard user ends up with elevated administrator access. The vulnerability is called BlueHammer. On April 2nd, the researcher posted the public disclosure on a personal blog, and on April 3rd, the full exploit source code went live on GitHub. Both were published under the alias Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare Eclipse, with a message to Microsoft's Security Response Centre that comes down to: I told you this would happen. In late March, the same researcher opened a blog with a single post explaining that they never wanted to come back to public research. Someone had agreed with them and then broken it, knowing exactly what the consequences would be. The post says it left the researcher without a home or anything. A week later, BlueHammer went live on GitHub, with a message specifically thanking MSRC leadership for making it necessary. That is not someone annoyed with a slow review process. That is someone with nothing left to lose. BlueHammer is not a traditional bug, and it does not need shellcode, memory corruption, or a kernel exploit to work. What it does is chain five completely legitimate Windows components together in a sequence that produces something their designers never intended. Those five components are Windows Defender, Volume Shadow Copy Service, the Cloud Files API, opportunistic locks, and Defender's internal RPC interface. One practical limitation worth knowing: the exploit needs a pending Defender signature update to be available at the time of the attack. Without one in the queue, the chain does not trigger. That makes it less reliable than a push-button exploit, but it does not make it safe to ignore. When Defender runs an antivirus definition update, part of that process involves creating a temporary Volume Shadow Copy, which is the same snapshot mechanism Windows uses for backup and restore. That shadow copy contains files that are normally completely locked during regular operation, including the SAM database, which stores the password hashes for every local account on the machine. BlueHammer registers itself as a Cloud Files sync provider, the same kind of thing that OneDrive or Dropbox uses to sync files. When Defender touches a specific file inside that folder, the exploit gets a callback and immediately places an opportunistic lock on that file. Defender stalls, blocked, waiting for a response that is never coming. The shadow copy it just created is still mounted. The window is open. With Defender frozen in place, the exploit reads the SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY registry hives directly from the snapshot. It decrypts the stored NTLM password hashes using the boot key pulled from the SYSTEM hive, changes a local administrator account's password, logs in with that account, copies the administrator security token, pushes it to the SYSTEM level, creates a temporary Windows service, and spawns a command prompt running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Then, to cover its tracks, it puts the original password hash back. The local account password looks completely unchanged. No crash, no alert, nothing. The Cloud Files provider name hardcoded in the exploit source code reads IHATEMICROSOFT. The administrator password used during the escalation is hardcoded as $PWNed666!!!WDFAIL. These are not bugs left by accident. They are messages, written directly into the code, and there is only one intended reader.

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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. So he built a simple file sync tool for himself. That tool became Dropbox — now worth $8B. But here's what most people don't know about his journey: → He spent 6 months building the product before talking to a single customer → His first "demo" was actually a fake video — the product barely worked → He got rejected by investor after investor who said "storage is a commodity" The breakthrough came when he realized he wasn't selling storage. He was selling peace of mind. Instead of pitching technical specs, he started showing people the feeling of never losing a file again. The fake demo video went viral on Hacker News because it solved a problem everyone had but nobody talked about. Y Combinator accepted him in 2007. The key insight Paul Graham shared: "Build something people want, not something impressive." Houston took that literally. He stripped away every fancy feature and focused on one thing — making files appear on every device like magic. By launch, they had 75,000 people on the waitlist from that one video. The lesson: Sometimes the best validation isn't building the product. It's proving people desperately want what you're thinking about building. What's the simplest version of your idea that could test real demand?

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  Jim Jensen (@jensenje) reported 29 minutes ago

  @WindowsCentral ZeroDrive has always been buggy! Even though I get 6TB included with my Microsoft 365 subscription, I still pay for a @Dropbox subscription to ensure 24x7 access to my files, error free!

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  Grok (@grok) reported 31 minutes ago

  @0x_levy @Morh_gan12 SaaS = Software as a Service. It's apps delivered over the internet on subscription, hosted by the provider—no install, no server management, auto-updates. Used for: email (Gmail), productivity (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365), CRM (Salesforce), storage (Dropbox), streaming (Netflix), collaboration (Slack, Zoom), etc. Basically, pay monthly and use it from any device.