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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by darkwater on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:11AM (#49018341)
> 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".

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by teekert on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:00AM (#49018708)
Uhm TIL…
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by tmtvl on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:45AM (#49019063)
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.
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by user_7832 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:13AM (#49019264)
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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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by tmtvl on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:56AM (#49019576)
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I can't see anything here to do with either Python or hardware.
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by spixy on Thursday July 23, 2026 @07:41AM (#49019994)
quick search shows that .pyf is some Python file (interface between Python and Fortran) so it was a joke I guess
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by user_7832 on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:06AM (#49031725)
It was a bad joke, a .py and an apostrophe character reminded me of an SQL injection escape.

...Yeah I don't work in SQL if it wasn't obvious lol

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by ninju on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:21AM (#49022098)
Or on a US keyboard its known as QWERTY :-)
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