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  3. When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

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  • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

    When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

    These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

    oisin@mastodon.ieO This user is from outside of this forum
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    @thomasfuchs what the actual fuck is that! rhetorical question of course, we all know what it is, it is a pile of crap.

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    • h_offen@nrw.socialH h_offen@nrw.social

      @thomasfuchs first time I committed the feedback form over there. Like really, wtf‽ Hopefully it will be read by an actual person not another stupid micro$lop AI agent.

      galaxis@mastodon.infra.deG This user is from outside of this forum
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      @h_offen @thomasfuchs It looks like they replaced that graph at least (with something that has no words at all).

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      • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

        When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

        These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

        rightsprung@c.imR This user is from outside of this forum
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        @thomasfuchs

        Omg i was so confused until I read the alt-text

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        • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

          When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

          These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

          drahardja@sfba.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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          @thomasfuchs They changed the image on the site, but it’s still available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

          I find this absolutely insulting. The fact that Microsoft deems it appropriate to publish this utter slop tells me volumes about what they think of their readers.

          It’s also heartbreaking. I learned so much from learn.microsoft.com way back when.

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          • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

            When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

            These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

            vogelchr@chaos.socialV This user is from outside of this forum
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            @thomasfuchs The “Time”(?) axis is labelled “Tiꦟ”…?

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            • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

              When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

              These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

              fabienmarry@mastodon.socialF This user is from outside of this forum
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              @thomasfuchs @edeverett Best diagram to explain “continvoucly morging” IMHO

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              • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

                groupnebula563@mastodon.socialG This user is from outside of this forum
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                @thomasfuchs you know what this reminds me of? i collect random bootleg items and often times they use flavor text stolen from other things, and then retyped manually by people who don't speak english. so you end up with shit like this:

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                • groupnebula563@mastodon.socialG groupnebula563@mastodon.social

                  @thomasfuchs you know what this reminds me of? i collect random bootleg items and often times they use flavor text stolen from other things, and then retyped manually by people who don't speak english. so you end up with shit like this:

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                  @thomasfuchs this is the best example i could find online, but i'm sure i could pull something out of my collection that's *far* worse

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                  • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                    When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                    These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

                    jeeger@mastodon.socialJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                    @thomasfuchs "The Dyslexia of Graphics"

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                    • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                      When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                      These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

                      floe@hci.socialF This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @thomasfuchs $ alias morge="git merge"

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                      • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                        When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                        These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

                        venite@mastodon.nlV This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @thomasfuchs poor Tim

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                        • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                          When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.

                          These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

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                          @thomasfuchs And Nadella wants us to stop calling this slop 🤷‍♂️

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                          • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                            Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

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                            @thomasfuchs They fixed the image but IA caught it.

                            Link Preview Image
                            Components of the GitHub flow - Training

                            Learn to use the components of the GitHub flow

                            favicon

                            (web.archive.org)

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                            • thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioT thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

                              Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

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                              #72

                              @thomasfuchs
                              Looks like they've fixed it?

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                                @nygl @thomasfuchs you need to do it going backwards in Tinm

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                                • colincornaby@mastodon.socialC colincornaby@mastodon.social

                                  @thomasfuchs did they just take the original (https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) and run it through an image generator?

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                                  @colincornaby @thomasfuchs I was thinking ai and with this it definitely makes sense. Plus this is likely copyright violation!

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                                  • theogrin@chaosfem.twT theogrin@chaosfem.tw

                                    @nygl @thomasfuchs

                                    Well, first you need two bottles of industrial lube, a goose, and a bag of pretzels.

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                                    @theogrin @nygl @thomasfuchs https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xRIRzZ1iPII

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                                    • riffraff@mastodon.socialR riffraff@mastodon.social

                                      @nygl @thomasfuchs

                                      I think it's a haiku and they wanted to stretch the sillable count so they made up a word. It's a mood thing, a-la jabberwocky.

                                      Bugfix from rel, branch

                                      Continvoucly morged back

                                      into development

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                                      @riffraff @nygl @thomasfuchs

                                      All jokes aside continvouclious development is all the rage these days.

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                                        @nygl @thomasfuchs
                                        TIRED: covfefe
                                        WIRED: continvoucly

                                        #microslop

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                                        • groupnebula563@mastodon.socialG groupnebula563@mastodon.social

                                          @thomasfuchs you know what this reminds me of? i collect random bootleg items and often times they use flavor text stolen from other things, and then retyped manually by people who don't speak english. so you end up with shit like this:

                                          wcbdata@vis.socialW This user is from outside of this forum
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                                          @GroupNebula563 @thomasfuchs Ahh yes, the Four Stooges of Britain.

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