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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…

How on earth do you *permanently* opt out of Dropbox moving file storage to MacOS' weird cloud location?
Failing that, are there alternatives with the same basic 'sync files across multiple devices and allow shared access' functions? I don't want to lose the ability to share folders with family

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
Shared with Dropbox

Today I randomly received a bunch of "support request received" emails from random sites I don't use.
Apparently I have sent a support request to ElevenLabs titled "Your Order Confirmation For Dropbox.Com Premium”; a support request to the Tennessee Department of Revenue titled “LEGAL NOTICE FROM CHINA FOR Nintendo”; a request to the Louisiana Department of Education's teacher certification team titled "CEASE AND DESIST ORDER FROM ISRAEL FOR Take-Two Interac…

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…

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…

Moved from pinboard to rainbow - comes with sync your own Dropbox. V nice, import was dead easy too

I am sorry, but did anyone at #Microsoft bothered to check how well #Dropbox works in File Explorer and what a pos is #OneDrive compared to it?

Synchronisiert #Dropbox nur noch zeitverzögert? Früher war das im eigenen Netz innerhalb von Sekunden auf den Endgeräten. Vor gut 10 Minuten ein Foto gemacht und das ist immer noch nicht auf dem Rechner :-o
Muss man echt alles selbst machen?

@… ich höre gerade @bitsundso und es gibt andere alternativern zu Dropbox https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/dropbox
Vielleicht ist et…

The penultimate #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBq0KdXU9c about High Redshifts and High Energies dealt e.g. with An Unlensed Barred Spiral Before Cosmic Noon (https://www.newswise.com/articles/pitt-student-finds-familiar-structure-just-2-billion-years-after-the-big-bang and https://www.umass.edu/news/article/astronomers-find-one-oldest-barred-spiral-galaxies-universe), A precessing jet from an active galactic nucleus (https://public.nrao.edu/news/record-breaking-stream-of-super-heated-gas/ and https://keckobservatory.org/vv340a/ and https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ecz5crtdymxrlodycogpt/AB32N_1Bh3pyI2SyzbRGkTs?rlkey=zbyz1muz40y1rh8ierpw1yfok&e=1&st=ebs24tqb&dl=0) and the papers AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole & Multiwavelength Modeling of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2024wpp (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03337 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03372 with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1foKS2AQJlWvI4_ZzUlV8pYfkyAsElzkRQ5yo82VWy4s/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0 and https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2026/1/6/cow and https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-telescopes-uncover-invisible-gas-around-record-shattering-cosmic-explosion/).

One thing that is a pain about dropbox on ubuntu is if you are re-setting up dropbox you can't point it at an existing folder that was previously downloaded. you need to re-download everything, which is a bit silly.

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…

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.

Remembering my time at Dropbox today
Tuck Shop was the fucking bomb

Kinda seems like dropbox is the easiest way to do backups on Linux? wild.

Perhaps I'm not really using the right words.
I think I don't care about backups as much as I want seemless cloud file sync.
dropbox has not been seemless. Google drive does not seem to be working on KDE.
#ubuntu

#diday #didit
#facebook und #dropbox hatte ich seit Jahren zwar nicht mehr genutzt, aber nie die Konten gelöscht... Bis h…