I used to listen to a lot of twit shows back in the day. “Netcasts you love”. Are they still around/any good?
Unrelated, but Buzz Out Loud too.
John C. Dvorak has died
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I enjoyed John and Leo butting heads. I agree that it was great. It's a bummer they haven't done that for a long time.
It was great until Leo went off the deep end and lost 99% of his audience.
I used to listen to so many TwiT podcasts 10+ years ago. But then slowly lost interest and I don't remember why.
But they used to be awesome. FLOSS weekly, Security Now, MacBreak Weekly, etc.
But a few years ago, I found out there were some scandals at TwiT, etc, but the network still seems to be going on though.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curmudgeon is the perfect term to describe. He was a great part of TWIT. I liked his obscure software references (lotus Jazz was one I think). He also found this new thing is like that old thing. His non positive takes were a great addition to the show.
When Leo banned him is actually when I stopped listening to TWiT. Apparently he came back a few years later, but I never did.
Leo finds out on air of John’s passing and is very respectful. Thank you Leo.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/windows-weekly-audio/i...
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#234I remember reading an article by him in the 90s where he claimed e-commerce would never take off because all internet users expect everything to be free.
I still expect information to be free. I am a bit weirded out by substack paywalls which have no obvious way to be circumvented.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
There does not seem to be a documented close lineal connection between August Dvorak and composer Antonín Dvořák, although it would be reasonable to suppose some relation exists.
There's also no documented close lineal connection between John C. Dvorak and August Dvorak, any more than his birthplace being Los Angeles. Both of which are blindly-repeated, unsourced (and untrue) Wikipedia inventions.
Wikipedia sources the claim to an article by Jerry Pournelle in BYTE magazine, from 1985.
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#237For those like me wondering if he's also the creator of the Dvorak keyboard, no but close! > He is a nephew of sociologist August Dvorak, creator of the Dvorak keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout
Interesting, that’s the only way I thought I knew this man.
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#239I'm going to post something that contradicts this outpouring of fondness for the late Dvorak. While I did enjoy his friendly curmudgeon act in the days of TWiT, I was very dismayed by him jumping in bed with that paranoid crackpot and I blame him for a lot of toxic ideas that he helped spread in his No Agenda show years. Maybe his earlier act was the mask and the latter John C Dvorak was the real persona. Or maybe th…
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