How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
"In 2010, I wrote a successful Git branching model and created a diagram to go with it. I designed that diagram in Apple Keynote, at the time obsessing over the colors, the curves, and the layout. I also published the source file so others could build on it. That diagram has since spread everywhere: in books, talks, blog posts, team wikis, and YouTube videos. I never minded.
What I did not expect was for Microsoft, a trillion-dollar company, some 15+ years later, to apparently run it through an AI image generator and publish the result."
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
(h/t: @db)
"15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
this becomes less funny when you remember every Microsoft employee is mandated to morge 🫠
“15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram” — Vincent Driessen https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
"15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
this becomes less funny when you remember every Microsoft employee is mandated to morge 🫠
nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
Other than that, I find this whole thing mostly very saddening. Not because some company used my diagram. As I said, it’s been everywhere for 15 years and I’ve always been fine with that. What’s dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone’s carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.
15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
Link: https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
Comments: https://lobste.rs/s/rfcbij
"15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
this becomes less funny when you remember every Microsoft employee is mandated to morge 🫠
nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
Other than that, I find this whole thing mostly very saddening. Not because some company used my diagram. As I said, it’s been everywhere for 15 years and I’ve always been fine with that. What’s dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone’s carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.
AI is fascism.
Microsoft lied about the authorship of "a successful git branching model" and claimed it as their own work that a LLM shat out.
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
I'm sorry there's no thoughtful response to AI, @aredridel, other than to burn it all down.
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It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI? - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/
Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Regarding various news sites blocking the Internet Archive because someone, somewhere, might be using it to train AI.
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers."
"When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite."
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
Organizations are blocking access to the Wayback Machine out of concern that generative AI companies are using it as a backdoor for large-scale scraping: Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.
Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/ #news #preservinghistory #internetarchive #waybackmachine #journalism #libraries #archives #scraping #ai
Update. But are #publishers right to worry that #AI companies can freely scrape the #WaybackMachine in order to train their tools? No, says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, and monitoring to prevent abusive access, and we watch for and actively respond to new scraping patterns as they emerge."
Cultural, spiritual, and most environmental impacts aren’t taken into account when launching thousands of satellites.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million #satellites to power data centres in #space.
The proposal envisions satellites operating between 500 and 2,000 kilometres in low Earth #orbit. Some of the orbits are designed for near-constant exposure to sunlight.
The approval process for these satellites focuses almost entirely on the limited technical info companies have to submit to regulators.
Cultural, spiritual, and most #environmental impacts aren’t taken into account – but they should be.
At this scale of growth, the night #sky will change permanently and globally for generations to come.
In 2021, astronomers estimated that in less than a decade, 1 in every 15 points of light in the night sky would be a moving satellite. That estimate only included the 65 000 #megaconstellation satellites proposed at the time.
Once deployed at a scale of millions, the impacts on the night sky may not be easily reversed.
#astronomy
https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million #satellites to power data centres in #space.
The proposal envisions satellites operating between 500 and 2,000 kilometres in low Earth #orbit. Some of the orbits are designed for near-constant exposure to sunlight.
The approval process for these satellites focuses almost entirely on the limited technical info companies have to submit to regulators.
Cultural, spiritual, and most #environmental impacts aren’t taken into account – but they should be.
At this scale of growth, the night #sky will change permanently and globally for generations to come.
In 2021, astronomers estimated that in less than a decade, 1 in every 15 points of light in the night sky would be a moving satellite. That estimate only included the 65 000 #megaconstellation satellites proposed at the time.
Once deployed at a scale of millions, the impacts on the night sky may not be easily reversed.
#astronomy
https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
Sharing the thinking behind the technical and product plans for upcoming releases.
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
In today's blog post, we have @renchap (with @imanijoy) updating you on the project roadmap, plans, and technical direction.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/our-technical-direction/
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.
new from me - Where Does Community Live?
A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web
Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.
This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.
Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.
This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.
Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.
This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.
Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community.
This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.
new from me - Where Does Community Live?
A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web
Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.
This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.
Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.
This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.
Blacksky went from a "custom feed that created a sense of shared space" to being the first independent ATProto microblogging community outside of Bluesky.
This is where the focus needs to be in the fediverse as well. Creating safe and welcoming communities that people want to be part of.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for! 😁
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Thank you once again to everyone supporting us on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors!
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for! 😁
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Thank you once again to everyone supporting us on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors!
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for! 😁
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Thank you once again to everyone supporting us on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors!
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for! 😁
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Thank you once again to everyone supporting us on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors!
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
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- 49 minutes ago | 22 points | 0 comments
- URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059275
- Summary: Asahi Linux's Linux 6.19 progress report highlights major milestones after five years of development. DisplayPort Alt Mode via USB-C is now functional on the experimental "fairydust" branch, enabling external displays via USB-C-to-HDMI adapters, though multiple displays and color accuracy issues remain. M3 MacBook Air support has advanced significantly with three new contributors enabling boot to Plasma desktop; however, GPU acceleration remains unavailable pending reverse engineering of the new M3 graphics architecture, and display output currently relies on inefficient iBoot framebuffer initialization. 120Hz refresh rates are now supported on 14" and 16" MacBook Pros through a workaround using static presentation timestamps. The DCP display driver is undergoing refactoring to support hardware planes, HDR, and compressed "Apple Interchange" framebuffers for better efficiency. Webcam support has been fully stabilized through fixes in the GPU driver's planar format handling, PipeWire latency calculations, and DMA-BUF handling. GPU driver upstreaming has begun, alongside performance optimizations for memory copies and buffer clearing. Fedora Asahi Remix users will benefit from improved package management via a new DNF5-based PackageKit backend enabling seamless vendor transitions.
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for! 😁
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Thank you once again to everyone supporting us on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors!
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for! 😁
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Thank you once again to everyone supporting us on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors!
Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for! 😁
https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/
Thank you once again to everyone supporting us on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors!
Ex-wife MacKenzie Scott giving away her billions at a faster clip, according to observers
Jeff Bezos gets philanthropy award at Vatican even as ex-wife gives away more of fortune
“In a blog post explaining her donations, which have gone to well-known organisations like Planned Parenthood and Habitat for Humanity, Ms Scott said she “will keep at it until the safe is empty.”
In fact, Ms Scott has given away more money, more quickly than any other billionaire Forbes has ever tracked.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-mackenzie-scott-charity-b2207440.html
#Jeff #Bezos was in the Vatican this week to accept an award praising him as a “Prophet of Philanthropy”
– even as his ex-wife #MacKenzie #Scott has given away more wealth, more quickly, than the Amazon billionaire
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-mackenzie-scott-charity-b2207440.html
#Jeff #Bezos was in the Vatican this week to accept an award praising him as a “Prophet of Philanthropy”
– even as his ex-wife #MacKenzie #Scott has given away more wealth, more quickly, than the Amazon billionaire
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-mackenzie-scott-charity-b2207440.html
#Jeff #Bezos was in the Vatican this week to accept an award praising him as a “Prophet of Philanthropy”
– even as his ex-wife #MacKenzie #Scott has given away more wealth, more quickly, than the Amazon billionaire
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-mackenzie-scott-charity-b2207440.html
#Jeff #Bezos was in the Vatican this week to accept an award praising him as a “Prophet of Philanthropy”
– even as his ex-wife #MacKenzie #Scott has given away more wealth, more quickly, than the Amazon billionaire
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-mackenzie-scott-charity-b2207440.html
Jeff Bezos gets philanthropy award at Vatican even as ex-wife gives away more of fortune
“In a blog post explaining her donations, which have gone to well-known organisations like Planned Parenthood and Habitat for Humanity, Ms Scott said she “will keep at it until the safe is empty.”
In fact, Ms Scott has given away more money, more quickly than any other billionaire Forbes has ever tracked.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-mackenzie-scott-charity-b2207440.html
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Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
Tired: The AI industry is bad because copyright infringement is bad
Wired: The AI industry is bad AND THEREFORE copyright infringement is awesome
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
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