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61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, DropBox, Google Drive, WhatsApp, and other popular services https://www.xataka.com/basics/61-alternativas-europeas-a-google-x-gmail-chrome-maps-dr…

Six hours of weird #ChristmasMusic I put together for a friend of my kids
There’s some 🪗 in there over the decades, but mostly a wacky range of rock, pop, western swing, a couple of pretty tunes, RUN DMC make an appearance, along with the Berlin Philharmonic and Charlie Parker, both in modern remixes of holiday classics 🫣
If you’re tired of the same

Christmas 2025 for Lena.mp3
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Dropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 5% (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustai…

from my link log —
Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07699
saved 2020-08-19 https://dotat.at/:/FHLM3.html

Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
Nowadays, loss-based TCP congestion controls in general and CUBIC specifically became the de facto standard for the Internet. BBR congestion control challenges the loss-based approach by modeling the network based on estimated bandwidth and round-trip time. At Dropbox, we've been using BBRv1 since 2017 and are accustomed to its pros and cons. BBRv2 introduces a set of improvements to network modeling (explicit loss targets and inflight limits) and fairness (differential probing and headroom for…

Well, that was interesting and curious. I clearly have no idea how anything works any more (not news, even to me). In an abundance of caution, I just changed my GMail password yet again, and two seconds later Dropbox said I was signed out. Maybe a coincidence but a) I've never been signed out of Dropbox like that before and b) the timing is a smoking gun.
It's all so creepy and invasive these days.

With the latest data added to #haveIbeenpwned I found out that #Dropbox lost my credentials a second time. 😔
So make sure to check #HIBP webpage with your email addresses and/or your domain to find out w…

The Government Added a Comments Section to the Epstein Photo Dump https://www.404media.co/the-government-added-a-comments-section-to-the-epstein-photo-dump/

»Viele kostenlose Cloud Dateispeicher bergen Sicherheitsrisiken:
Wer kostenlose Versionen von Dropbox, Box oder WeTransfer nutzt, sollte beim nächsten Download genauer hinschauen. Eine Analyse von Surfshark zeigt - Viele dieser Dienste prüfen Dateien nicht auf Malware.«
Ich weise immer wider darauf hin und doch glauben viele nichts verbergen zu haben, auch bei Firmen interne Highlevel-Secure Daten.
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Viele kostenlose Cloud Dateispeicher bergen Sicherheitsrisiken
Surfshark warnt: Viele kostenlose Datei-Dienste scannen Dateien nicht auf Malware und schaffen neue Risiken für Sicherheit und Privatsphäre.

#IVoted #NJ #USPol