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  Tim Geisendoerfer (@djgeisi) reported 7 minutes ago

  @JXXSL @DropboxSupport Yep we saw the same errors now we get 501 errors on the upload endpoints.

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  Ishita Sethi (@Ishita__Sethi) reported 7 minutes ago

  @LoganOpSec that dropbox bit is the part that sticks. recovery without revoking access is just half a fix.

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  AaronAlamary | Parking (@aaron0505) reported 8 minutes ago

  I saved my grandfather's voicemails for years. Birthday wishes. Questions about his computer. Who to call to fix his A/C. Upgraded my iPhone and they were gone. Devastated. Found them today sitting in my Dropbox. SO glad I get to hear him again!

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  Matt Farley of Motern Media (@MoternMedia) reported 16 minutes ago

  @WorstMikeFrollo The other one is the Vimeo version (also available through PayPal/dropbox on my website now that Vimeo is shutting down on demand).

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  True Become False (@trubecomefalse) reported 17 minutes ago

  @imbabybrooklyn HN had a terrible track record. They were anyi bitcoin 1 month after it launched. Same with Dropbox, discord and a few others off the top of my head.

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  Rei (@ReiHerrera) reported 24 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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  Zely (@0xZely) reported 24 minutes ago

  The MIT professor who crashed 10 percent of the internet at 22 posts the free course that runs every AWS outage, every Uber ping, and every Slack notification on earth. MIT charges $85,000 a year to sit in that classroom. He posted every lecture to MIT OpenCourseWare for nothing. Millions have opened lecture one. Almost no engineer has finished all twenty. His name is Robert Morris. He is a professor at MIT CSAIL and one of the four cofounders of Y Combinator, the seed fund behind Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, and Coinbase. In November 1988 he was a 22-year-old Cornell graduate student. He released a small program that was supposed to count the computers on the internet. It replicated so fast it crashed roughly ten percent of every machine online, and made him the first person ever convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He got three years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $10,050 fine. Ten years later he cofounded the online store Viaweb with Paul Graham and sold it to Yahoo for $49 million. Seven years after that he cofounded Y Combinator with the same partner. Its portfolio is now worth over $600 billion. The clip in this video is one lecture from MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems, filmed at MIT and posted for free. The words on the board behind him are fault tolerance, availability, recoverability. Those three words decide whether Instagram loads when you open it, whether your Uber arrives, and whether your paycheck hits your account on the first of the month. Morris covers the entire logic of distributed systems in twenty lectures. Everything fails, all the time. A single computer fails once every few years. Ten thousand computers fail hundreds of times a day. The only design that survives is one that assumes failure is normal. Every retail user cursing a spinning wheel is looking at the wrong problem. The miracle is that most of the time it does not spin. Availability beats consistency. You cannot always have both. When the network splits, a system either serves stale data or refuses to serve at all. Amazon picks stale. Your bank picks nothing. Every user who screams at the Slack status page wants Amazon's answer. Every user who screams at a double charge wants the bank's. Replicate everything, trust nothing. Data in one place disappears when that place burns. Data in three places survives two fires. Every photo you have ever taken on an iPhone lives on three continents already. iCloud, Google Photos, and Dropbox are built off the exact lecture on the board. Concurrency is where bugs live. One user at a time is easy. A million users at the same second is not. Race conditions, double spends, lost messages, ghost bookings. Every airline that oversold your flight, every trading app that ate your order, every Ticketmaster that showed you a seat already gone, is a concurrency bug Morris warned about. Partial failure is worse than full failure. A dead server is easy. A slow server that answers half the time is a nightmare. It fools every retry, wastes every resource, and confuses every operator. Every "is it down or is it just me" Twitter search you have ever run is Morris's third slide. Every senior engineer at AWS, Google, and Meta has watched this course. Every startup that raised a Series A in cloud infrastructure hired an alumnus of 6.824. Every AI company training a trillion-parameter model on a cluster is running the same lecture in production. "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." That is Leslie Lamport, the Turing Award winner Morris quotes at the opening of 6.824. It is the exact sentence that explains why your Slack goes down when a data center in Virginia loses power. The full course is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The lecture notes are on Morris's website. Every equation on the board fits on one screen of code. Almost every senior engineer at AWS, Google, Cloudflare, and Meta has watched 6.824. Almost no founder promising 99.99 percent uptime on their pitch deck has opened lecture one. That is the entire moat. The course is free. The willingness to sit through twenty lectures on partial failure before uploading your money to a payment app, storing your photos in the cloud, or handing your health records to a portal is a much rarer commodity than the confidence to click without them.

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  Akshay Shinde (@ConsciousRide) reported 25 minutes ago

  @jahirsheikh8 The server never guesses. When the upload starts, it creates an upload session with a unique ID. The file is split into chunks, and the server records which chunks have already been received. After reconnecting, the client asks, “Which chunks do you already have?” The server responds with the missing offsets, and the client uploads only those. That’s how services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and S3 multipart uploads resume transfers without starting over.

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  Paul Klein IV (@pk_iv) reported 25 minutes ago

  Is MCP dead? @grinich (CEO of WorkOS) says it's better than ever and become the strongest intent signal in your funnel. @workos is building the auth, permissions, and registration layer for that world, the same enterprise plumbing it sold to Vercel and Plaid, now sold to AI companies. I sat down with Michael to talk about it in episode 4 of Navigators. His argument: your coding agent already picks your vendors, but signup forms are built to block automated traffic, so the agent stalls at the front door and waits for a human to paste in an API key. We got into: 00:00 "Stripe for enterprise features": what WorkOS actually sells 02:44 How an SSO and SAML company ended up as AI infrastructure 04:13 Why AI companies can't meander up-market the way Slack, Dropbox, and Figma did 06:54 The biggest mistake founders make: staying in the pre-PMF experimentation mindset 09:51 Why nothing works unless the management team is AI pilled first 10:47 "Claude day": pairing engineers with finance, legal, and ops once a month 13:36 auth.md, the missing front door for agents 15:26 Why registration, not tooling, is the next growth channel 16:59 Is MCP dead? The higher-intent signal hiding in MCP connections 19:35 Why SDKs are going away and coding agents write their own 23:09 "The super cycle of all super cycles": AI amplifies labor, it doesn't just disrupt it Thanks for joining me on the pod @grinich! Watch the full episode of Navigators here:

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  Atalocke (@atalocke) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Dishpit So your moat on a developer product is “let us run this for you”? Like Fly or Cloudflare couldn’t destroy you by adding a durable object *** server? They already have a CI/CD product. They already have the compute. Look, you could be having a DropBox 2009 moment, but why your software when there’s already a great open platform my agent has decades of docs to work with and simple docker hosting options? Is it really just cost? How long is that sustainable? Nobody is going to buy a *** host. Really, you’re competing via marketing. You need a target audience of developers. Not just generic developers.

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  Tibor Hudik (@htunlogic) reported 28 minutes ago

  @theonejvo Wispr is a rounding error. Drive, Dropbox, iCloud all sell "encrypted" while they hold the key. Then you paste the pile into Grok so the agent can just handle it. You did not get compromised. You volunteered. That is not E2EE. That is a slogan you paid for.

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  GHOST 🌙 (@ghosstty_) reported 29 minutes ago

  OPUS 5 + HIGGSFIELD CAN TURN A 6-QUESTION FORM INTO A $35K WEBSITE. IN ONE SESSION. FOR $4 IN TOKENS. no mockup. no wireframe. no mood board. six answers from the client. that's the input. a live website is the output. here's the form. here's what each question does. and here's why agencies charge $35K for what this produces in one session. → QUESTION 1: "WHO IS THIS SITE FOR?" not "describe your target audience in 500 words." one sentence. "CFOs at mid-size SaaS companies looking to switch billing providers." this one answer sets the tone, the copy angle, the visual weight, and the CTA hierarchy. an agency runs a two-hour discovery call to get this. I get it in a google form on monday. → QUESTION 2: "WHAT SHOULD A VISITOR DO?" book a demo. buy the product. join the waitlist. one action. this kills scope creep before it starts. no "maybe we should also add a blog and a careers page." one page. one goal. one conversion. → QUESTION 3: "SHARE 3 SITES YOU LIKE AND SAY WHY." not "what's your brand aesthetic?" nobody can answer that. "I like stripe because it's clean. I like linear because of the motion. I like notion because it feels simple." three links. three reasons. that's the design system seed. → QUESTION 4: "WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT FROM COMPETITORS?" one paragraph. sometimes one sentence. this becomes the headline. the subhead. the entire above-the-fold story. a copywriter would interview the founder for an hour. this question does it in 30 seconds. → QUESTION 5: "SEND YOUR LOGO, BRAND COLOURS, AND ANY EXISTING ASSETS." a dropbox link. a google drive folder. sometimes just three hex codes and a png. this grounds the design in reality. no inventing a brand from scratch. no "let's explore some directions." → QUESTION 6: "WHEN DO YOU NEED IT LIVE?" not a timeline negotiation. a date. "next friday." done. that's when it ships. → WHAT HAPPENS NEXT friday night. six answers go into the pipeline. Opus 5 takes the answers and builds. design system. responsive layout. copy. CMS. all from the spec those six answers created. Higgsfield generates the hero media. product shots. clips. matched to the brand. saturday I review. adjust. polish. sunday morning - walkthrough link in the client's inbox. → WHY THIS WORKS because $35K was never the cost of building a website. it was the cost of figuring out what to build. discovery calls. alignment meetings. three directions. two rejected. scope changes. revision rounds. all of that is just a slow, expensive way of answering six questions. I ask the questions upfront. the client answers in 10 minutes. the machine builds from the answers. $4 in tokens. one session. same site. the full system - the form, the pipeline, the stack, and the pricing model - is in the article below. reply "FORM" and follow me - I'll send you the full playbook.

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  kingofDEpin (@kingofdepin) reported 32 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport @LIBSCRUSHER we can't login and link creation etc is not working. please fix

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  Abhi • AMZBoosted.com (@AbhiChauddhari) reported 36 minutes ago

  Everyone downloads Seller Central reports manually. Every. Single. Day. The problem isn’t downloading reports. It’s remembering to do it before you need the data. AMZBoosted schedules report downloads automatically and sends them wherever you want. Google Sheets. Dropbox. Telegram.

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  Mitzi Hellmer (@Cathy44365595) reported 37 minutes ago

  @marcorandazza @DietCoke_Esq The claim is that the “CSAM” of Miller’s daughter was released the first time he published the Dropbox folder. Considering that Miller disabled that folder and lied about an outage on Dropbox shortly after publishing it, I think it’s entirely plausible that he may have inadvertently released a **** photo of her ******** as claimed. Who knows…probably her being cute in the bathtub. It honestly seems perfectly plausible.