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  BlackhillsEd (@blackhillsed) reported 7 seconds ago

  @SgtJulier1776 @CoffeeBlackMD I would suggest @HunterEsoteric Go to his website, sign up for the emails and look at his resources. He is on YT (Taken down before) and Spotify. Once you get the 1st email go to the bottom of the page and get the complete Dropbox vids. Get his cheatsheet as well!

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  Simon Bates (@RobotDoggy69) reported 2 minutes ago

  I don't know what's going on with Dropbox and my Mac at the moment, but it just won't stay running. I assume it's another apple update that's causing this headache. For two such big firms to give its clients such problems is seriously ****** up.

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  The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Like, gee, I wish I could make a ****** app and it just sell and I don't even need to fix bugs or introduce features. Must be nice if you're a big *** corporation. Only the people suffer.

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  Bark (@barkmeta) reported 6 minutes ago

  Let me explain what just happened… 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. 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. 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. 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. Every single week another AI drops and another career becomes a subscription. And it’s not slowing down. It’s speeding up…

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  Shirochenko Dmitriy (@dmshirochenko) reported 8 minutes ago

  @rumevideo Built a full end-to-end video stack from scratch. Ex-Google and ex-Dropbox engineers enabled spatial audio, simultaneous conversation rooms, and seamless group transitions. Impossible with off-the-shelf APIs like Zoom or Twilio. Technical moat was real, but insufficient for sustainability. Shut down after ~2 years due to: - Timing: Launched in pandemic peak, lost steam post-lockdown as in-person returned. - Network effects: Social video needs critical mass to stick. - Monetization: Unclear path vs. free alternatives or ad-supported models. Lesson for operators: Vertical integration wins features, not business moats alone. #AI

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  Neural Insights (@neural_insights) reported 8 minutes ago

  Netflix, Google, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Instagram, Spotify, Dropbox, Reddit, Pinterest, Uber, Airbnb, Quora all use Python. But sure—Python is “too slow” for your project.

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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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  0xJansss (@jannnsssssss) reported 13 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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  blue (@blueambiance_) reported 13 minutes ago

  @LaroTayoGaming I've gotten good use out of auto-syncing to Dropbox! I work on two devices, so it's nice to pick up from where I left off easily. I haven't encountered any issues with it, so I assume it's alright.

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  Sean (@jishaochen89766) reported 15 minutes ago

  And finally, I find the problem is In the " Remotely Save " option, there is a set name "Change The Remote Base Directory) I need to find the name of the file folder in Dropbox, and fill it in this parameter... So everything is Light....Sync ....

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 18 minutes ago

  You pay Google $10/month to store your files. On Google's servers. Where Google can read them. You pay Dropbox $12/month. On Dropbox's servers. Where Dropbox can read them. You pay Apple $10/month. On Apple's servers. Where Apple can read them. Dropbox was breached in 2024. User emails, hashed passwords, API keys, and OAuth tokens were exposed. There is a tool that syncs your files directly between your own devices. No cloud. No server. No middleman. Ever. It's called Syncthing. 81,900+ stars on GitHub. Your files go directly from one device to another. Peer-to-peer. They never touch a third-party server. Not even Syncthing's. Here's what it does: → Syncs files between any number of devices in real-time. → Peer-to-peer. No central server. Your files go directly between YOUR devices. → TLS encryption with perfect forward secrecy on every connection. → Every device authenticated with a strong cryptographic certificate. → Works over LAN and internet. No port forwarding needed. → Selective folder sharing. Sync different folders with different people. → File versioning. Deleted or changed something? Roll it back. → Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Solaris, and more. → Web dashboard to monitor everything from your browser. → No account. No sign-up. Install it. Share a device ID. Done. Here's the wildest part: There is no Syncthing server. There is no Syncthing cloud. There is no company storing your data. The protocol is open and documented. There is nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel. Google has shut down 293 products. Dropbox has been breached. iCloud photos have leaked. Every cloud service is one policy change away from scanning everything you store. Syncthing can never shut down your files. Because your files were never on their servers. Dropbox Plus: $12/month. $144/year. Google One 2TB: $10/month. $120/year. iCloud+ 2TB: $10/month. $120/year. Syncthing: $0. Unlimited devices. Unlimited storage. Your hardware. Your files. Forever. 349 contributors. 464 releases. 5,000+ forks. Battle-tested since 2013. Run by the Syncthing Foundation. A Swedish non-profit. MPL-2.0 licensed. Open protocol. Peer-to-peer. Free forever. 100% Open Source.

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  mark rigdon (@markrigdon) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Been a dropbox user since 2009. But I’m now starting to question after 17 years if we can actually use this service reliably because we’ve now been trying to recover a botched sync across four business computers for five days now and three separate dropbox support people that have yet to actually fix the problem. they can’t even seem to figure out what the problem is across the three of them as they pass the buck. it’s making Dropbox look completely incompetent, which is bad. We just need all the files restored between a certain time that were deleted. But here we are five days in and can’t get anyone at Dropbox to actually do that. We can’t do it manually on our side because it’s simply too many files and we don’t even know what’s missing. come on guys can someone actually interact with me in real time, it’s bad enoug that Backblaze told us out of the blue that it stopped backing up Dropbox as a corporate decision as of April 17 without even telling us so I can’t grab from our back up to restore this absolute mess that completely stopped our business from using Dropbox for the last five days. can someone respond in real time so we can get this taken care of pretty please?

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  Glitch Truth (@glitchtruth) reported 21 minutes ago

  the bottleneck is OSC 52 only forwards text, not image bytes. workaround most people land on: screenshot to a synced folder (Dropbox/iCloud) and reference the path, or scp it over before pasting. iTerm2's imgcat works the other direction but not for input. real fix would need a custom escape sequence nobody's shipped yet.

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  Jim Jensen (@jensenje) reported 24 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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  Phil Kyprianou 💀☕️ (@philkyprianou) reported 25 minutes ago

  Something interesting happened today. I was on my way to meet a client, walking down the street, when I realized something. The document I needed to send them was still sitting on my laptop at home. Not in Google Drive. Not in Dropbox. Just a file on my computer. Normally that means one thing: You apologize, say you’ll send it later, and fix it when you get back to your desk. But this time I tried something different. I pulled out my phone and texted Claude. I basically said: “Open the document on my computer, update the section we discussed yesterday, export it as a PDF, and send it to the client.” And then I kept walking. Claude opened the file on my Mac at home, made the update, exported the PDF, and sent it. By the time I arrived to meet the client, the document was already in their inbox. No remote desktop. No complicated setup. Just a message from my phone. This is a new feature called Dispatch inside Claude Cowork. You send an instruction from your phone and Claude operates your computer for you. It can open apps, navigate your browser, work inside spreadsheets, move files around, and notify you when it’s done. Your computer still needs to stay on. But you don’t need to be at it. Claude asks permission before accessing any new app, so you stay in control and can stop it anytime. But the real shift here is bigger than the feature itself. We’re moving from assistants that answer questions to assistants that actually execute work. And honestly, this feels like the OpenCLAW moment for everyone. Not for developers. Not for power users. For anyone. You just text what you want done, and your computer does it. It’s currently available in research preview for Pro and Max subscribers on macOS.