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krista wolffe

@kristawolffe.bsky.social

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349y/o, rivendell's youngest basement dweller. she/her does: musical stuff, engineering, research, and writes an occasional essay. into: music, animation, tea, scotch, reading climbs, scuba dives, hikes, skis asm/c/c++ sometimes pays the bills

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Sep 27

generational slang has been an interest of mine for generations. now i;m old it's fun fucking with the kiddos using their slang properly then mixing in stuff from the 1920s or 60's with their new or retro-new slang :)

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 18

yeah... this was a fucked up movie :)
i remember this well.

in a word with a project 2025, i'm not sure if ”There's No One In Charge” or ”Whatever The Fuck Is Happening In The States Now” is more freighting.

heh, all of those ”... fight a 100 dick sized tanks or 1 tank sized dick” make sense now.

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 18

Software-Defined-Boundaries

can we fucking design for consent already? yeah, i’m a xyzzillion years late, but ID requirement shit + You as-a Product is batshit.

not a fan of web3/crypto; decentralized is awesome.

besides “old lady yells at cloud services”, any ideas what the fuck to do?

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 18

plus the hell of:
- y ”At Scale”

can we work on Empathy At Scale?

---

”-at scale” and ”X as-a Y” needs ”Responsibility”.

ie: Goole is At Scale.
- ever need help? have you ever talked to anyone who _could_ help?
- yell at sky until go away.

Responsibility at Scale should apply.

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 18

- this language validates and makes it ok to productize everything.
- this is not ok.

taken to extremes, it's CaaS: consumers as-a Service, and in an attention economy, it's selling Attention as-a Service.

i guess that's modern advertising, SEO, and not AI Optimization and ATS if you hunt...

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 18

X as-a Y.

- it's a buzzword.

- it's everywhere, and has been for a while

- it's not as sexy as AI, but it's insidious as it reframes bullishit into monthly subscription dollars by reframing into providers and consumers.

what it really wants to be is ”Devotion as-a Service”

(it's a DB w/ CRUD)

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 18

this could go wrong in so very, very many ways...

... how can i help?

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 14

i absolutely love that iLL WILL PrEss is still publishing.

youtu.be/T6zrwozVfV4

Punch to Your Heart : A.i.J.i.

YouTube video by iLL WiLL PrEss

youtu.be

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 5

wow!

that's a vibe!

and an entire aesthetic!

speaking of ”entire aesthetic computer companies” i miss SGI.
- all their gear was just too damn sexy.

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 5

do you find the company name offensive as well?

it'd be like renaming the title of POTUS to Big Brother or something...

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 5

keep up the good work!

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Aug 5

heh. was not expecting to see somebody from this angle waking up and logging into blue sky...

... but yes I had that problem until I started using a roc 'n' sock drum stool as a chair.

between guitar and vr-motion stuff it's practical. + reminds me to take breaks.

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Jul 28

let's use their ai video gen to make it!

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Steve Bowler @gameism.bsky.social · Jul 27

Me, every time I’m forced to interface with some stupid ai bullshit post 2010:

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Jul 27

i had to do that as early models got the calibration blown to hell in a couple of scenarios, to the point the touchscreen wouldn't work and the error couldn't be detected.

the industrial design team didn't want any buttons besides the touchscreen...

best choice in a bad situation.

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Jul 27

your ev charger: i did the firmware on that thing. architected, lead the very small team, and wrote a lot of the low level stuff.

that hw was... special.

i also did the commercial and dc fast charger firmware.

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Jul 7

my test website is in html, i'm using cnd.exe to ssh to aws and cowbeing code my blog post live using sudo nano.

it was a long 'blog entry, hence cmd spanning 2 monitors. word-wrapping is too new.

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · May 26

seriously, though... i don't have an answer, but i did have a laserjet iii when it first came out.

what a truly beautiful unit of form, function, and excellence!

also, tektronix. i think hp ate them, but i remember it was a special day whenever the tektronix catalog came in!

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · May 26

”Don't write overly long explanations.

...

Because of things like bad or arbitrary metadata on containerized asynchronous multiplexed sub-narrative assemblies”

Chet G.P. Talks, (2018), ”Writing Fantasy Fanfic Using Applied Software Engineering Principles - 2nd Edition”

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Mar 1

1: to finish the idea, that just about everything *can* be measured in $ means it's easy to optimize around $: it's a single variable.

this fascinates a lot of people.

--=

the problem is that just because everything can be measured in $ doesn't mean it's representative of the thing being measured

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Mar 1

one of the reasons this is happening is because of copy-paste business ideas and the fundamentals of why they work: money is intertwined in enough things that when we try to plot [thing] on a graph, there's almost always a $ axis in the basis¹.

--> we need a copy-paste protest method to fight this.

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · Feb 26

Senior unity dev position available in Vancouver.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Buffalo Buffalo hiring Senior Unity Developer in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | LinkedIn

Posted 5:29:04 PM. Buffalo Buffalo is a future-forward Vancouver-based game studio, looking for a talented Senior…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster · Feb 25

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but he is occasionally a temporarily useful tool (and David Icke is definitely a tool)

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Feb 25

David Icke, notorious English peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about lizard people, is calling out Elon Musk on Twitter and it is fascinating to watch:

David Icke
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The vast majority of these people have families and kids to support, but you don't give a fuck you arrogant spoilt elitist child. You are a 13-year-old narcissistic tyrant working with a
13-year-old narcissistic tyrant and yet people who call themselves adult hang on your every syllable no matter what you say.
The world needs to grow up - starting with you Musk.
PS: Apologies to 13-year-olds. x.com/elonmusk/statu...
O Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • Feb 23
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
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6:01 AM • Feb 23, 2025 • 575.1K Views

David Icke & @davidicke
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No, I am not advocating for government. I am advocating against tyranny as l have decade after decade. I am advocating for people to be seen for what they contribute and not to be judged as a single group for the corruption of the few. Black and white is how we got here and that's how you are being manipulated to finish the job.
How many federal workers are we talking about who will produce lists that have to be processed? Will they ever be processed? Of course not - that's not the idea. Firing as many as possible to deregulate the oligarchs and open the way for Al dystopia is the WHY this is happening.
My God - the naivety.
7:30 AM • Feb 23, 2025 • 21.9K Views

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krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Feb 13

of course, my calendar popped up with ”j. r. lallo's birthday” on that day, but i ignored it as the previous several reminders caused me to happy birthday you on incorrect dates...

... so apologies and a belated ”happy birthday, jo!”

krista wolffe @kristawolffe.bsky.social · Feb 13

i'd have pointed to my shoulder, my elbow, and my wrist and said 'krista'...

... like when challenged to say the alphabet backwards for the first time i turned my back to my mother and started ”a... b... c... d...”