Dash Jackson

~ founder of a stealth startup. Software engineering. Cloud. Data centers. Networking. Open source. lover of life. Ask me anything.

2025-06-16

Expressing gratitude more often for my circumstances has allowed more positive energy to flow inward. Be one with the universe.

2025-06-12

@josephsouthern Scott adams went full maga

2025-06-12

@jasondentler nice designs.

2025-06-12

So many alcoholics in tech. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

2025-06-11

Exercise. Breathe fresh air. Be one with the universe.

2025-06-07

Singapore is such a great place to live. I really miss it at times.

2025-06-06

@arbres I mean given you don't know who my mom is or why she is the way she is that seems a bit presumptuous. You're also a bit alarmist to say the very least.

2025-06-06

@arbres I use Signal but good luck explaining to my 72 year old mother that WhatsApp is insecure and we need to move our group chats over to Signal.

2025-06-06

Folks who grew up renting video games in the late 90's and early 2000's remember finding save files of others who had rented the game prior to them.

These save files revealed things about how others in your neighborhood and how they played the game, from different play styles to different artifacts they'd find along their playthroughs.

Just like how Blockbuster went the ways of the dodo bird, so did this communal gaming experience.

Not knocking on modern gaming, but there was just something magical about renting a game, and checking out the save files of what others had tried out prior to you having your go at the game.

#nostalgia #gaming #retro

2025-06-05

Why are condo vertical stack units such massive pieces of shit? Every year I spend at least $1500 servicing this thing.

2025-06-05

@arbres I already did too but I have a sock puppet for FB marketplace and Whatsapp is where all my family group chats are.

2025-06-04

@Sheril It is, but what is anyone ever going to do? Deep tech is so intrinsically a part of the American cultural and financial fabric now, extricating it will cause distress and losses that the public doesn't want to face and go through.

We're truly living in a dystopian nightmare at times.

2025-06-01

@molly0xfff I'm not sure you can blame OpenAI for this as it's a user generated GPT. Talking to a vanilla/default 4o won't lead down this path. Plus what's stopping people from hosting an offline model from hugging face that does the same thing?

It's a classic chicken and egg problem. I'm not defending these apps fwiw. There is potential for harm. However it's up to the user. Home Depot sells hammers. Those hammers can be used to build a house. Or cause bodily harm. Is it home depots fault when someone assaults another with a hammer?

Incels and other men who struggle with their self image will find ways to validate their beliefs whether or not OpenAI does anything about these GPTs. Blaming them for not doing more isn't fair and is passing the buck on the real problems here.

2025-06-01

@appassionato would something like this work in Vegas?

2025-05-30

Pirates of silicon valley

2025-05-29

Another day of me abusing ChatGPT

2025-05-29

Angrily typing in my mastodon login wondering why it won't let me in and then I realize it's because I am not using my email but rather my mastodon ID (dashjackson@techhub.social).

2025-05-29

What are people paying cloud consultants for these days? What's the most in demand? Is it cost optimization ?? AI? I feel like migrations have become way too commoditized

2025-05-29

@KiwiEV it's a bit eerie but a welcome sight

2025-05-29

@mcnado just another day in the greatest Republic

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