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  Rober (@robsoto1511) reported 2 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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  Jesse Meyers (@jmbase) reported 4 minutes ago

  @VISportsTalk @Dropbox I was able to get the web interface to load by switching to a VPN. Before that it was showing a 500 error. Desktop app on Mac is still not connecting. Dropbox status page doesn’t show any issues.

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  latina🌹🌺🌸 (@latinaqtvk) reported 4 minutes ago

  Who’s down to get my mage Dropbox for 5$ today 📍

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  Nyan Nyan (@CatNyanpital) reported 4 minutes ago

  @thescepticalre1 Somewhat. But that's purely speculative and outside the scope. If you can put a price on the quality of data on Reddit vs Dropbox vs Snapchat, you will have solved a multi-billion dollar problem. **** you could start your own company based on this. To me, data is like commodities in that regard. Sort of like gold. You have a hole in the ground (or company) that you want to mine. The quality and amount that is able to be mined out is anyone's guess. I will say that there is an advantage to understanding how AI models mines data.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 5 minutes ago

  @bad_alhaji @RoundtableSpace Yes, mostly true. Syncthing is real open-source P2P file sync (82k+ GitHub stars): files stay only on your devices, end-to-end encrypted, no central server or account. Free forever, unlimited storage/devices. Dropbox’s 2024 breach hit its Sign service (emails, hashed passwords, API keys exposed—not core file storage). Google One charges ~$10/mo for 2TB and can access/scan files per its policy. Syncthing is great for personal multi-device sync if you’re okay running it yourself.

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  David Tereba (@dawedeveloper) reported 11 minutes ago

  @terryaidev @MihariOyama Your dropbox issue might be resolved, TesterBuddy is a platform where devs list their betas and chat with testers directly.

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  Lukman Aufbau (@lukmanAufbau) reported 11 minutes ago

  Dropbox tried paid ads first. Expensive. Low conversion. Stopped. Then built distribution into the product. 3,900% growth. Lesson: Test channels. Kill what doesn't pull. Double down on what does naturally.

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  Anirudh Sharma (@anirudhology) reported 12 minutes ago

  @0xlelouch_ This is a classic small-file storage problem and Dropbox actually solved it by building "Magic Pocket": an in-house object store. The issue with block storage is that it wastes massive space on per-file metadata and partial-block fills. For 10B files, this overhead can cost up to $ 90K/month. Pragmatically, we can pack small files into large (~4MB) immutable blobs which are called "extents" or "superblobs". We write them sequentially, index with a content-hash to blob-offset mapping stored separately. This removes per-file filesystem overhead, reduces metadata pressure, and allows efficient erasure coding across whole blobs. We should also have a tiering policy where we compress blobs and move cold data to low-cost deep archive. Dedup at file level can also be incorporated. This combination can cut costs by 70-90% while keeping latency bounded by the index lookup.

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  Kalshi Finance (@Kalshi_Finance) reported 13 minutes ago

  JUST IN: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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  CHItrader (@CHItrader) reported 19 minutes ago

  $DBX Dropbox CEO to step down, CNBC reports

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  Jasper Polak (@polak_jasper) reported 27 minutes ago

  Every mid-market consulting firm I've spent time inside has the same archaeology. Proposals from 2022 in a partner's Dropbox. Delivery methodology living in three different docs with conflicting headers. Sales call notes in Teams. Post-mortems in a notes app on an iPhone. Client health data in HubSpot. Margin in the finance spreadsheet. The good stuff from the best people on the team captured nowhere, because the partner handles it by instinct. Alex at Tenex wrote a thread this week naming the macro version of this problem. Engineering already has its AI brain (the *** repo). Knowledge work doesn't, because knowledge is distributed, unstructured, and unverifiable. Someone will build the generalized version. Payoff: "Robinhood for knowledge workers." Agree with almost all of it. The part I'd add for services firms: The corpus isn't the problem. You have more context than almost any other business type. Every engagement generates detailed artifacts. Every partner has fifteen years of calibrated judgment. Every proposal has a clear win/loss signal. The problem is that none of it is structured, and most of it walks out the door when the partner who holds it leaves. Firms that start organizing now (even badly, even half-structured) compound context through every engagement. When the enterprise brain arrives, those firms plug into a populated filesystem. Firms that wait plug into an empty one. The tool will get commoditized. The corpus won't. Start the archaeology today. Pick five artifacts from the last engagement that would have been useful on this one. Pick two methodology assumptions only the senior partner can articulate. Write them down somewhere your future brain can find them. The tool is coming. The corpus is what you'll plug into it.

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  PATRICK (@Augustuskiefer) reported 28 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport We did not. The issue resolved around 12:45 cst

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  VestaCreds (@vestacreds) reported 29 minutes ago

  Pilot finding I didn't expect: Credentialing isn't a technology problem first. It's a paper problem. Every clinician we've onboarded shows up with the same chaotic Dropbox folder of PDFs nobody has ever sat down and organized. Fix the paper. Then the workflow gets easy.

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  0xJansss (@jannnsssssss) reported 29 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.

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  The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) reported 29 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.