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Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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How wonderful to be human, and to be able to have your own political views and opinions such that you could be, subjectively, wrong. We can all only hope to one day also have our own opinions and proudly be wrong.

so this cuts both ways. You voluntarily publish your "beliefs" widely and publicly, be prepared to be called on it. Most of us choose not to do this, but if you want to exert influence you are held inviting criticism.

There's nothing wrong in being wrong. I'm often wrong, and I'm very happy when I learn something and cease to be wrong about that.

If you take the political views angle, up to 2005 or so, I was very much for small State and liberal economics, but, over the years, I observed the results of assistance programs for vulnerable populations, industrial policies that developed entire regions, and other measures that ensured more opportunities for upwards social mobility, especially for populations that were often excluded from that. Then, in 2015, a coup came, that ousted a left-wing president and demolished most of those policies. Then a far-right president finished demolishing what was left.

At this point, I am very left-leaning because of this. I have seen what injustices do, and how we can eliminate them - and it's not even hard to do so. If even a relatively poor country such as Brazil can do that, anyone can.

Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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And Leo will say nothing but nice things about him and express nothing but regret when he talks about this on the next episode. I am not sure John would have done the same.

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The only "TDS" is Trump devotion/defense syndrome.

Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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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.

I listened for a long time but eventually moved on. They're still around though. They found out about John during a recording of one of the shows: https://youtu.be/fcvPifFSUL0?si=XC-0V75agqjoUSP7&t=1950

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post #69

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He was often wrong.

RIP he was highly skeptical, not necessarily open to the long range view.

What made him useful for a set of things made him wrong for another. That's kind of being human - you don't judge by evidence alone, but also on your previous experiences and biases.

Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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post #91
post #69

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He was often wrong.

How wonderful to be human, and to be able to have your own political views and opinions such that you could be, subjectively, wrong. We can all only hope to one day also have our own opinions and proudly be wrong.

There's nothing wrong about being wrong, unless you try to force others to live under your own wrong assumptions. He didn't do that.

Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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We miss each other. But it’s ok. We’ll meet again at the great Apple Store in Heaven. In heaven, macOS is GNU-licensed. GPL3+, nothing less.

Hell gets Windows.

In Heaven, even Windows is under GPLv3+. That's why nobody uses it.

Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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For 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

> of the Dvorak keyboard Ok, I'm going to shame myself in public for this but, I always thought they were "DVORAK keyboards" and they were called this way just like the "AZERTY keyboards", that is, the first 6 letters of the first row were "DVORAK".

There's no shame in not knowing something or inferring wrong conclusions from facts you do know. From left to right the first 6 keys of the top row are:

  ',.pyf
Which isn't as catchy as Dvorak.

Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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post #148

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When Leo banned him is actually when I stopped listening to TWiT. Apparently he came back a few years later, but I never did.

Apparently Dvorak was against net neutrality. He had the worst takes https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=d0e55f319709994434570865...

I listened to his many pontifications about net-neutrality at that time.

His concern was not the theory and practice of "net-neutrality".

It was that "net-neutrality" was being used by various industry lobbyists and politicians at that time to justify the creation of a definition of "lawful traffic". By their definition, only "lawful traffic" would be subject to neutrality. Traffic that was not deemed "lawful traffic" would not be treated the same and could be shaped and blocked.

It was at the time that Pirate Bay was under constant legal attack (2015) and BitTorrent was the "unlawful traffic".

IMO this was a good take that not many journalists paid attention to.

Re: John C. Dvorak has died

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post #258

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> of the Dvorak keyboard Ok, I'm going to shame myself in public for this but, I always thought they were "DVORAK keyboards" and they were called this way just like the "AZERTY keyboards", that is, the first 6 letters of the first row were "DVORAK".

There's no shame in not knowing something or inferring wrong conclusions from facts you do know. From left to right the first 6 keys of the top row are: ',.pyf Which isn't as catchy as Dvorak.

Unfortunately python scripts turn out to be not as vulnerable to character escaping exploits.

Character escape, in this context, of course, refers to the keys themselves flying out of the keyboard, this being a hardware product and all.

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