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Hector and others were really bad losses for the Rust kernel devs but Lina? That’s catastrophic. She was a figurehead in getting apple silicon working so well on Linux that even Linus moved his development machine to an M1 Macbook.
Linus has royally fucked it with how long he sat on the side of this. Im so sorry to Lina and others who have been burned by this community.
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You understood wrong and are contributing to the problem.
Damn, marcan and asahi lina…
asahi project might be dead in the water now, that blows.
Yea, they’d been making huge progress. Doubtful it’ll continue, certainly not at the same pace if it does.
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This kind of weird ass pointless parasocial analyzing is exactly what contributes to people stepping down from projects. who cares about some weird ass conspiracy?
I did a bit more research into this and it seems this conspiracy is largely spearheaded by Kiwifarms, so I do feel bad by bringing it up.
For anyone who is unaware of Kiwifarms…
“Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ˈkwɪki/ KWIH-kee), is a web forum that facilitates the harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing and real-life harassment.[3][4][5] Kiwi Farms has been tied to the deaths of three people who were victims of harassment and died by suicide.[6][7][8]”
First time I heard about it. I’m a bit conflicted about what I should think about this. The first two things in there that I noticed were a comprehensive handling of Musk: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/elon-reeve-musk.134949/ and Andrew Tate: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/andrew-tate-top-g-cobratate.127428/
Are they sort of a southparkian “fuck everyone” kind of forum?
They typically target transgender people or people with autism, And try to drive them to suicide. Because they think it’s funny.
They shared the manifesto of the Christchurch mosque shooter.
I’m not going into details about the people that have died. I’ll never forget refreshing my feed and the post about Near’s death appearing right in front of me.
Don’t feel conflicted. These are edgelords who want people to suffer for their amusement. But they’re organised and will carry out actions in real-life.
And I ask this because I’ve seen too much of their shit spread for years now; please don’t share links to their website. Know your enemy, but be smart about it.
Yeah I browsed some more and this site is indeed quite shit.
I imagine Ted T’so and dis stupid ‘thin blue line’ comment as well as him yelling at previous rust devs during in person meet ups was not happening in a vacuum.
Linus has really failed at punishing these characters before toxcitiy killed any rust momentum at all.
I hadn’t heard of that comment, which wasn’t as dumb as it sounds, though some obvious solutions were overlooked and the phrasing wasn’t great.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250208204416.GL1130956@mit.edu/
For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don’t. Please don’t make assumptions. Thank you.
I’m safe physically, but I’ll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.
Also potentially relevant: https://bsky.app/profile/lina.yt/post/3lkjo6jomok2v (scroll up)
Who’s cyan? What’s going on?
Cyan is Lina’s partner. Cyan is the vtuber name but apparently they met IRL about a year ago.
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Wtf is vtube
Edit: looked it up. Stands for virgin tube
It’s a thing you can look up on search engines or Wikipedia very easily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTuber
Ah yes
I’m going to mention this obscure weird shit and then berrate you about not using a search engine
i know it’s wrong to make assumptions, but it seems that, on top of all that rust/c war, her partner was undergoing some serious problems. it seems that she chose to prioritize her personal life and assessed that developing those drivers wasn’t worth all the harassment in this situation.
Aw man :( Asahi Lina and her GPU project has been an inspiration for me. Hope she is alright.
I find comments questioning Lina to be incredibly sus in origin and intention.
I hope Lina & Cyan are safe.
Is this related to the kernel/rust drama, or the political situation in the US. Sure, the drama could have been handled better by the maintainers, but would that make Asahi lina feel unsafe?
I guess all sort of neckbeards are feeling empowered to spew hatred on the internet right now.
There’s also Kiwi Farms targeted harassment involved as well
Hadn’t heard of that, but can’t say I’m surprised.
“Please don’t make assumptions”
Lemmy people continuing to make the wildest assumptions.
sigh
We’re not assuming, we’re speculating.
I left this post intentionally vague and scary so everyone speculates on why
Sounds like interpersonal conflict. Always sucks to see a productive dev quit though.
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I wasn’t sure if Hector was gonna quit vtubing too after the Rust thing. Kind of a delayed response as his alter ego but it makes sense.
I thought Asahi Luna is a tulpa of marcan, aren’t they related?
