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  echelon_zero (@echelon_zero) reported 2 minutes ago

  @dhh @renefaurskov Do you have a contact at dropbox that could fix the install on linux to point the dropbox to a folder other than default. Having to pause it and link to another folder after install is mentally unhealthy.

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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 4 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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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 6 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport ive tried mircosoft edge but problem is stil present... do you think i might have been hacked or had bad file ?

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  Mikemira (@storiesbyohama) reported 6 minutes ago

  Just imagine getting accepted into the most exclusive startup club on earth… Then being told you have two weeks to find a complete stranger to as your partner. That’s exactly what happened to Drew Houston in 2007. He had the idea for Dropbox. He had a rough demo. @ycombinator liked it. But @paulg was clear... Single founders rarely make it. You need a co-founder. Right now. Drew’s friends couldn’t join. Time was running out. What would you do? He put out the word. A mutual friend connected him to a quiet MIT student named Arash Ferdowsi. They had never met. They sat down in the student center. Talked for about two hours. About code. About the problem. About the future. At the end of that conversation Arash said yes. He dropped out of MIT the next week with only one semester left. Two weeks later they walked into the YC interview together. They got in. The rest is history: a company that became worth billions. It looked reckless. It felt like a shotgun wedding. Yet it worked because both were all-in from the first conversation. I’ve studied hundreds of startups that never made it past the idea stage. Most founders wait too long for the “perfect” partner. They overthink chemistry. They protect their equity. They miss the window. You can’t wait for certainty. Sometimes the right co-founder is the person willing to jump with you before the proof exists. The speed of that decision can be the difference between staying a solo dreamer and building something real. What would you risk in two weeks if the right person walked in?

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  Tim Geisendoerfer (@djgeisi) reported 6 minutes ago

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

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  AiMind (@AIMind_Ai) reported 8 minutes ago

  A $50 box saves $240 a year on subscriptions and earns $18,000 a year setting it up for clients. No new hardware. Nothing bought at retail. A used office tower. A second-hand drive. One stick of RAM pulled from a dead laptop. The whole build came to 50 dollars. It looks like nothing. Fans humming, one cable to the wall, sitting on a desk next to a coffee cup. The first win is the one nobody talks about. Cloud storage, photo backups, the $20 a month AI plan everyone pays and forgets — all of it moves onto one box you paid for once. 240 dollars a year, gone. The second win is where the money is. Once it runs on your desk, it runs on anyone's. And clients don't pay for parts. They pay to stop bleeding subscriptions. Here's what you actually sell: A private AI trained on their own files, so staff stop pasting company data into a browser. That's $1,500 a setup. A self-hosted file server that kills their Dropbox and Google Workspace bill. $600, plus the relief of never renting storage again. A local automation box that runs invoices, replies, and reports overnight. $900, and it never sends a dollar to a cloud. Then the quiet one: $150 a month to keep it patched and alive. 10 clients on retainer is $1,500 every month before you build a single new one. One setup a week at $1,500 is $18,000 a year. Off hardware other people throw in the bin. I had no degree, no server room, no $2,000 build. Just dead parts and one free weekend. The expensive part of AI was never the compute. It was the monthly bill you agreed to and stopped reading. 50 dollars in. $18,000 out. Same box.

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  MEGA (@MEGAprivacy) reported 13 minutes ago

  Dropbox users just got hacked through a Lenovo login, not their Dropbox password. A stolen session should still hit a locked box. That’s what end-to-end encryption is for, and how MEGA is built. Without E2EE, stealing the session is stealing the files. With it, they only get scrambled data.

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  havenX (@the_havenx) reported 14 minutes ago

  Second time this exact thing has happened with Claude. ~100k ChatGPT chats were found the same way after users hit "shared." Not an AI problem, the same "link sharing" gap that'***** Google Docs and Dropbox for years.

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  Mikemira (@storiesbyohama) reported 14 minutes ago

  Twitter did not explode online first. It exploded in a hallway. In 2007, Twitter was still small. Most people online did not care. So the team did not try to shout at the whole internet. They went to SXSW. They put two big screens in the corridor. People at the event sent a text. That text showed up on the wall in front of everyone. One person posted. Ten people saw it. Then those ten posted too. That is how usage jumped. Not from a giant ad. From one room full of the right people. This is the growth lesson most founders miss. You do not need the whole market on day one. You need one place where your first users already stand. A campus. A conference. A WhatsApp group. A Discord. One street. One event. Dropbox did this on Hacker News. Tinder did this at campus parties. Airbnb did this when hotels ran out of rooms. If signups are slow, stop spraying ads everywhere. Find the one room. Make the product visible there. Let people watch other people use it. That is how early growth actually starts. I'm Miracle Ohama, a Growth Marketer helping B2B SaaS & tech companies find and fix revenue leaks across their funnel, I fix Growth Funnels & build real experiments that increase ARR.

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  Kyngsly (@RelentlesslyK) reported 15 minutes ago

  @yettydlaw_ @MTNNG MTN will likely be able to explain it away... Anyway, this how Claude explained. "708GB over 104 days works out to about 6.8GB a day. That sounds shocking until you break down what actually eats data on a modern 5G phone. The usual culprits, roughly in order of how often they turn out to be the answer: Video, especially autoplay. TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and X video. Scrolling Reels for two hours can burn 4 to 6GB on its own. “Social media and browsing” is exactly the usage profile that quietly does this. 5G itself. This one gets missed constantly. Video players negotiate bitrate based on available throughput. The same 30 minutes of YouTube that cost 300MB on 3G can cost 2GB on 5G because the player auto-selects a much higher resolution. Nothing changed in behavior, but consumption multiplied. Wi-Fi Assist / Adaptive Connectivity. iPhone and Android both silently fall back to cellular when Wi-Fi gets weak. The phone shows the Wi-Fi icon while pushing traffic over the mobile network. People assume they’ve been on Wi-Fi at home all evening when they haven’t. Cloud photo backup. iCloud Photos or Google Photos set to back up over cellular. A few 4K videos is several GB right there. Hotspot and tethering. A laptop pulling Windows updates, OneDrive or Dropbox sync, or a Zoom call. Also worth asking whether the SIM ever sits in a MiFi or router. Background refresh and auto-updates. App store updates over cellular, plus dozens of apps refreshing in the background. Video calls. WhatsApp video runs roughly 300MB an hour, Zoom or Meet more. On the operator side, real errors do happen: duplicate charging, subscription add-ons deducting from the bundle, or misapplied tariffs. But there’s also a structural point worth knowing. Carriers meter at the network layer, so they count protocol overhead and retransmissions, and in a poor RF environment retransmissions can add a real percentage on top of the payload the app thinks it sent. One practical note on that complaint: the app-level breakdown being demanded is hard for any carrier to produce. Traffic is encrypted end to end, so MTN can see volume, timing and destination IP or SNI, but not “3.2GB attributable to Instagram” in any reliable, retained form. The chronological deduction ledger and the subscription/add-on audit are the demands most likely to actually produce something. The fastest self-diagnosis is Settings > Cellular on iOS or Network & Internet > Data usage on Android, sorted by app, with the counter reset date checked. "

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  Porro (@MagickPorro) reported 18 minutes ago

  @unknownhomer @hasen_95dx You see how we have gone from comparing omarchy to dropbox to saying it is just a cool rice? I have no problem with people chosing omarchy because it looks cool, i just don't want people to treat it as if it is an actually innovating software in any meaningful way

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  keeks is ready to be the worst man in amercia (@ultranormanmoon) reported 21 minutes ago

  @JonahAmericana NOT BOTH BUT IM SURE YOU CAN PIRATE THE FIRST ONE. I have the Dropbox link but I think they deleted it or something bc I have to login to find it and idk if that’s normal or not 😭

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  Eric Smith (@Eric_Smith08) reported 24 minutes ago

  The uncomfortable truth. Google and Microsoft have spent the last decade building the two most complete free productivity ecosystems in history. Word processing. Spreadsheets. Presentations. Email. Cloud storage. Video calls. Notes. Tasks. Projects. Forms. Websites. AI. Messaging. Calendar. PDF tools. Every category. Both companies. Free. And yet the average knowledge worker pays $80-$150/month for third-party apps that duplicate what these ecosystems already provide because Google markets Gmail and Microsoft markets Word, and neither company tells you about the other 28 tools sitting behind the same login. That’s not an accident. Google doesn’t make money when you use Google Keep. They make money when you use Gmail and Keep keeps you in Gmail longer. Microsoft doesn’t make money when you use To Do for free. They make money when your company sees you using To Do and buys Microsoft 365 Business for the entire organization. The free tools are loss leaders. They exist to acquire users, not to generate revenue. And because they’re loss leaders, neither company promotes them aggressively. You don’t see Google Keep on a billboard. You don’t see Microsoft Planner in a Super Bowl ad. The free tools are invisible by design because the business model works whether you find them or not. Meanwhile, 9 separate companies Notion, Zoom, Dropbox, Slack, Todoist, Grammarly, Adobe, Trello, and OpenAI charge you monthly for products that are often inferior versions of what Google and Microsoft give away. They survive because the free alternatives are invisible. Their entire business model depends on you not knowing that two companies already built what they’re selling. “You have two accounts. You’ve had them for years. Between them, they contain every productivity tool you need free. You’ve been paying $1,644/year for 9 apps that duplicate what your Gmail login and your Microsoft login already provide. The tools were never hidden. They were just never advertised. And 9 companies have been billing you monthly hoping they never would be.” One weekend. 9 apps canceled. $1,644/year back. The accounts were always free. The tools were always there. You just never opened them.

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  Eric Taylor (@bcs_erictaylor) reported 30 minutes ago

  Really?? Dropbox really needs a MCP server? CVE-2026-81102 The Dash MCP server bound its listener to the loopback address but never checked the host a request named. src/mcp_server_dash.py constructed the server for its network mode with the interface restricted to loopback and no transport-security settings, so a name that had been pointed at the loopback address still reached the listener while carrying the attacker's host name. A page in a visitor's browser could therefore drive the local server and invoke its company-search and file-detail tools under the Dropbox credential the server holds. Only the network mode was reachable this way; the standard input mode was not. The fix supplies transport-security settings that enable host checking and allow only the loopback name and port, rejecting other hosts before a tool runs. The repository publishes no versions, so the affected boundary is the commit preceding the fix.

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  TechSignal (@tchsignal) reported 30 minutes ago

  How a Lenovo ID Flaw Exposed Dropbox Accounts A security flaw involving Lenovo ID exposed an unusual weakness in account authentication: attackers could reach some Dropbox accounts without knowing the victims’ Dropbox passwords. According to Dropbox and Lenovo, the issue involved a legacy integration between the two services. A problem in Lenovo’s email-verification process allowed an unauthorized person to create a Lenovo ID using someone else’s email address. Because Dropbox trusted Lenovo ID as an authentication method, that identity could then be used to access a Dropbox account associated with the same email. Dropbox says unauthorized access occurred between August 4 and August 21, 2026, affecting about 5,000 accounts. Fewer than one-third had files viewed or downloaded. The incident does not show that Dropbox’s broader infrastructure was breached or that Dropbox passwords were stolen. The weakness was in the authentication chain connecting the two services. Dropbox expired Lenovo ID-authenticated sessions and changed the login flow so users must now enter their Dropbox password when signing in through Lenovo ID. #Cybersecurity #Dropbox