<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@akshayn" class="u-url mention">@<span>akshayn</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> hahaha, Australia is just really good, especially in their backyard</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@dev" class="u-url mention">@<span>dev</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> is India always this bad at cricket</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> are we certain he wasn’t talking about the architect(s) von Neumann? They were actually Viennese and often styled “Neumann”, IIRC</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@steve" class="u-url mention">@<span>steve</span></a></span> Exactly. Though he credited &quot;Neumann&quot;. (-: (Also von Mises, etc.)</p>

<p>Just found out while listening to cricket commentary that Hobart Tasmania has a Doctor Syntax Hotel.</p>

<p>communicating</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I decided over the weekend to give <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palworld</span></a> a try again on the desktop. Public servers are still suffering from ridiculous restrictions where you set up a character, get started, and then the first time you try to set a palbox you&#39;re told the world has hit its base maximum -- that happened to me three times.</p><p>So I joined an open community server on LinuxGSM. Quiet, no more than 3/6 players at once. Got to level 28, built a second base. Then server owner put a password on it.</p>

<p>urgh. after a week of very interesting research and digging, i&#39;ve located the source code for a very popular 3d rendering/modelling program from the 90s and 2000s: Caligari trueSpace</p><p>does anyone in the digital preservation world know someone at the Microsoft Open Source Programs (OSPO) office?<br />i&#39;d love for this to be officially sanctioned as an OSS project.</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/digitpres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>digitpres</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>softwarePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>windows98</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> it's a salt on our sensibilities, and I shall need a drink or seven before I go tell someone to pound sand. ;)</p>