Denton Gentry

@dgentry.bsky.social

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Old man yells at Cloud. He/him. SVP Eng @ EVgo. Former Tailscale, Xoogler, Project Drawdown, startups (various), Sun Micro. Practice Interviews & career discussion: https://calendly.com/dgentry/discuss

GMail browser window with Chat selected, showing a chat request from Google Drive which says, "Welcome to the Google Drive app!"
Two 3.5" floppy disks labelled RAM Doubler and RAM Doubler 2 by Connectix.
T-Mobile advertisement: "let's be friends with lots of benefits."
Google ShakeAlert Android notification: "Earthquake nearby. Expect light shaking. Initial estimate M5.9 about 192.2 miles away."
Chrome browser certificate viewer for patientws.labcorp.com showing that the certificate was valid from November 5, 2024 at 4:00:00 PM until Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 3:59:59 PM, which at the time this screenshot was taken was about 45 minutes in the past.
LinkedIn job posting titled: "VP of Engineering - Baked Goods - Remote"
"By using Covered California, you'll save $5.00/mo on your health plan. Your estimated yearly cost includes these savings."
Count von Count from Sesame Street, a purple skinned muppet with vampire teeth and pointed ears (who is quite harmless).
Hannover Rathaus, the local goverment building in Hannover Germany, is a gothic architecture building with aged green copper roofing.
GMail Inbox showing an email from LinkedIn Job Alerts for Head of Engineering at Vultron.
GMail Inbox email from Amazon Web Services, subject line "Just days away: don't miss AWS Innovate on 10/23"
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
US Geological Survey Volcano Notice - Department of the Interior
Two cooked hot dogs on a plate which have been cut into long thin strips about 80% of the way and sat on the plate to resemble to Octopodes with tentacles. Text overlaid on top of the image reads: "class myclass: public hotdog, public octopus {" The caption reads: "Multiple Inheritance, how does it work?"
Upper corner of a cloud provider dashboard which lists estimated costs as $69.69
T/Mobile advertising flyer with text on a magenta background: "let's be friends with lots of benefits"
Two envelopes with German addresses, mailed via Deutsche Post. One is from Hannover, the other Berlin. The Berlin letter is stamped "Luftpost."
Check whether I am a robot: "Select all images with cars. Click verify once there are none left." There are nine images, all quite small and very grainy.
macOS dialog box: TurboTax 2024 wants to use your confidential information stored in "tmx-bpxl_uuid_service: in your keychain. To allow this, enter the "login" keychain password.
A Panasonic digital camera with a black body and silver trim on the retractable lens. On the front is marked "12x optical zoom." It is turned off with the automatic lens cover closed.
In the center is a small LCD screen with white plastic, one button on the front and two buttons on the side with an HDMI port between them. The LCD screen sits in a charging cradle made of blue plastic, with an infrared receiver window on the front and USB-C port on the side.
GMail inbox showing email after email from Google Cloud Alerting, 23 emails altogether.
A black cat perking up like a meercat looking at something which has gotten her attention off-frame.
Venmo privacy settings for payment visibility: Public, Friends, or Private. The Private selection is checked in the screenshot. Below the current settings are two buttons to make all older payments be visible to Friends or Private.
Slack emoji selection box with the text "cpu" entered, with a suggested selection of the "facepunch" emoji with a fist facing directly at the viewer.
Screenshot of a flight radar map showing an Asiana Cargo 747 to South Korea taking off from San Francisco International Airport over the San Francisco Bay, then turning to cross the Peninsula directly over Redwood City and San Carlos.
Towel origami of a swan on the left and an elephant on the right. A pair of sunglasses has been placed on the elephant's face.
Signal release notes: "February 26, 2025 · 7.44.0 - We fixed a minor animation bug during group calls. We apologize in advance if the most exciting part of your day was switching to grid view during a meeting and trying to catch the moment where the video squares from people who joined late sometimes partially obscured the slide deck your boss was presenting."
Six emails, three per day, that someone "has added you to a group conversation on Twitter!"
Announcement from bitly: "Upcoming Changes to our Terms of Service We are making some adjustments to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy that will affect you as a user of Bitly's free plan. Beginning in the next month, when your audience interacts with your Bitly links or QR Codes, they may see a preview page prior to being directed to the destination URL. The page includes information about the link destination and may include advertising. As a free Bitly user, you can remove the preview page experience from your links and QR Codes at any time by selecting a paid Bitly plan."
Screenshot of the post by snipe asking for people's experiences with virtual assistants, but it follows the post by snipe saying their virtual assistant helped sort out all of their appointments.
Bullet point from a Terms of Service update from Disney+: "We are clarifying that, as we continue to increase the breadth and depth of the content we make available to you, circumstances may require that certain titles and types of content include ads, even in our 'no ads' or 'ad free' subscription tiers."
Tweet from Sam Altman, in response to Elon Musk offering 97.4 billion dollars for OpenAI: "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want"
An empty bottle of Duchesse de Bourgogne ale.
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Google Cloud payment received email. Your payment amount of $0.04 to Google was received on Feb 1, 2025.
New USPS delivery vehicle, with a huge wraparound glass windshield and a low hood which looks like a duck's bill. The vehicle sits on a stage at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Baking pan holding a whole, raw chicken with octopus tentacles stuck up into the body cavity. On the whole it resembles a Lovecraftian abomination.
The storefront of the YOLO Federal Credit Union, Branch Office and Real Estate Center, 501 G Street in Davis, California.
Two photos of the famous arched bridge in Heidelberg, Germany, officially the Karl-Theordor-Brücke but often called The Old Bridge or Alte Brücke. The top photo is more muted in color and labelled 1969, the bottom photo is more vibrant orange and labelled 2024.
Dental milling machine carving a dental crown from a blank.
komagene brand salgam, or turnip juice. Ingredients show there is more carrot juice than turnip.
State of Florida, Department of State, Apostille.
Google Lens matching an image of Munich, determining that it "is a photo of the Justizpalast (Palace of Justice) in Munich, Germany, taken around 1970."
Group chat which begins with "I want to go out to dinner. Maybe pizza. Or sushi." Other users then follow up saying, "Pizza," and "Pizza. I want Pizza now." The final message is an image of a smiling cartoon character holding up a sign saying "100."
Google AI summary: "AB Bahco is a Swedish company known for its hand tools, but doesn't have a dedicated sauna heater division or product line. You might be looking for a different sauna heater brand or product, or perhaps a different company altogether." Next to the Google screenshot is a picture of a sauna heater made by the Ventilation division of AB Bahco of Enköping, Sweden. It is a 9 kilowatt unit, model number BTD 9.
Bill Nye the Science Guy being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
NPR headline reading, "Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out."
Store shelf with Baharatli flavored Lay's and ketchup flavored Ruffles chips.
Gray haired lady holding a baby wrapped in a blanket, standing on a shoreline near the ocean.
The same USB floppy disk drive, with a USB-C adaptor attached to the end of its USB-A cable.
A translucent plastic case holding a floppy disk drive, with a label on the back reading, "macally USB floppy disk drive for Mac" with a serial number and part number FDD-USB.
3.5" floppy disk labeled, "fujifilm.net Pictures on Disk" with several order numbers printed on the label.
Schoolhouse Rock "I'm just a Bill" character, an anthropomorphic roll of papers with a red, white, and blue "BILL" badge on a lanyard around its neck. The bill stands, quietly waving with a slight smile on its face.
List of Verifications from the LinkedIn Profile. Tailscale verified using work email. Google verified using work email.
Facial identification in Google Photos has indicated a painting of Jesus in the background as a face needing identification. Two other obvious humans in the photo are not indicated as being faces.
On a German learning website, "Bring die Wörter in die richtige Reihenfolge: Ich bin 54 Jahre alt" which means "Put the words in the right order: I am 54 years old." Below is a note saying, "Did you know? Older people sometimes find it impolite if you ask them how old they are."
Files from Google Takeout not able to download, "File wasn't available on site"
Google Photos Takeout download: "Sorry, you have already downloaded these files the maximum number of times."
Bluesky comment with a "Discard draft?" popup over it.