wilkie @wilkie@mastodon.social

I lost my water bottle. But that's ok; I'm an academic and therefore have at least 27 other ones from each eco-friendly conference I've attended.

love this technical essay about GIF preservation. even modern formats and codecs might lose information on transformation, which is always tempting for storage reduction and staving off format obsolescence. can't always rely on originals either. conundrum. http://research.smalldata.industries/gif/

You *can* record a lie on the blockchain. You still need a lot more process and infrastructure to record verifiable truths. It's more than annoying when people think otherwise.

FFVI is one of those games that makes me cry repeatedly

i'm truly grossed out at how my brother showed me a youtube video on their own account and I get back into the city and youtube starts recommending me more of them

Feeling very grateful to the people protesting today.

*googles* "item slide real life lifehack no grappling hook" #SGDQ2018

i bet a good and devious practical joke to play on a speedrunner is to patch bugs in games without telling them. hahaha

"program: command not found"

ok. which one of you assholes called your program "program"

just witnessed a 22-year-old not knowing how to close an envelope. they didn't believe the person that told them to lick it. to be fair, it *does* sound ridiculous.

Jesse Singal is just yet more evidence that many people instinctively only trust people outside of a group to report on how justified the existence of that group is. And "outside of a group" is always one type of person, isn't it.

I'm getting that transport tycoon itch again.

only half of my slack groups are down which is giving me all of the IRC déjà vu

dang. that solid dent in the new york political machine makes me a little more optimistic.

I think... I'm beginning to become very certain actually... that things that expect "python" to be python 2 are the major antagonists of my life.

My Pokémon GO Trainer Code thingy is 3753 2815 0004. I'm curious about how the "social" stuff works.

international copyright law is like a boa constrictor... once it tightens, it never untightens and it will slowly kill us all.

After a whole day of playing, Eska finds a way to rest while ensuring you can't sneak away.

Ahhh. The restaurant is owned by a wilkie. Sarah Sanders learned an important lesson about our strong will and determination to treat assholes as assholes.