<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>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> giving Vienna credit for von Neumann is a heck of a stretch.</p>

<p>8/ Still, if you can overlook that — as one must, with this genre — the result is still a fine, entertaining, and informative book. Certainly, I now have more places to visit when I&#39;m next in Vienna and even more context than my previous studies gave me. •</p>

<p>7/ This mars what could have been a great book: to show the outsize influence one small part of one city (and one university) had on the world&#39;s thinking, restoring to Vienna the reputation it squandered through Naziism and playing the victim. But Cockett pleads too hard. ↵</p>

<p>6/ Even to make his (improbable) case, Cockett has to take great liberties: essentially, if you did more than pass through Vienna, you count for his thesis. And of course, as the center of a major empire, many people did that… ↵</p>

<p>5/ Where I think Cockett goes wrong is this modern trend (for about 25 years now) of having to make X be the center of everything. Too many authors fall into this trap (probably generously nudged into it by their publishers). ↵</p>