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.
I can’t share any more information at this time, so please don’t ask for more details. Thank you.
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.
Well that’s sudden.
RIP Asahi Linux.
Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.
What fascists are ruining OSS?
Guessing it’s because Lina is queer. A little bit ago, I was trying to find what was going on and found a bunch of bigoted comments and conspiracy theories about her and her girlfriend(maybe wife now?).
I don’t think this thread is helping.
WTF? Is somebody threatening her for working on open source drivers???
What is this fucking timeline…
Edit: ohhhhh…there seems to be a LOT of underlying stuff happening here. Like Lina is an anime alter-ego of Marcan I guess? So confused…
These talking points about identity originated from kiwi farms.
It’s this kind of weird unhealthy speculation that gets people to step down.
I’d not perpetuate it.
Then what is the actual issue?
She quit due to harassment. That’s it, that’s the story.
harassment
From who? What kind of harassment?
She’s queer. Take a guess why she’s getting harassed.
First Marcan, now Lina. Huge blow to the Asahi project :(
Twas the same person, AFAIKEdit: Apparently they’re not, or at least there’s a bunch of controversy there I have absolutely no intention of getting into.
These talking points about identity originated from kiwi farms.
It’s this kind of weird unhealthy speculation that gets people to step down.
I’d not perpetuate their views.
Ugh I forgot that shit hole was still running
What’s kiwi farms? I’m not really in the loop on this issue.
A forum where trolls congregate to gossip and organize harassment.
A hate site where a lot of the worst of 4chan/8chan racist, nationalist, and lgbtq-phobic types congregate to organize harassment campaigns against people they don’t like. They have been linked to multiple people committing suicide.
From my admittedly third person perspective, I wouldn’t classify it a “hate site”. A “lolcow” (or who they classify) tracking/doxxing hub, sure. Completely unhinged, sure, but I dunno if I’d consider it a “hate site” specifically…I’d also saying writing it off as just hateful really doesn’t do it justice, for how bad it really is.
If anyone’s interested in a broad overview of the history/point of KF, I’d recommend reading the first paragraph of Section 2.
They literally give space to nazis at that site.
What criteria in your head makes a site qualified for it to be a “hate” site to you???
I’m saying classifying it just as “hate” isn’t doing justice to what KF is. I would probably classify Xwitter generally as a “hate” site (these days, anyway); but KF is much worse. In a similar vein, I always wouldn’t say 4chan is a “hate” site, as that doesn’t quite cover it.
Likely the use of “twas”
'Tis not a simple matter, ser.
So… people like the nu-age shortcuts but not the ye olde ones?
Twas an awakening to me, too.
Spinning more drama around this project, that’s what it needs.
This is the worst way how to announce something like this.
I don’t know the context, but if the goal was to not start a wave of speculations, it would be better to simply not hint at anything. I wonder what happened, and I respect if they don’t want to deal with it, but this does feel weird.
Well. What were the options? Stopping without saying anything? Lying? I think this is better. Sure I’ll speculate. Bit I’ll keep it for myself
Don’t tease gossip? Either say “I’m quitting due to personal reasons” or give actual details “I’m quitting because I received ongoing abuse about being trans on X from several users and I’m fed up with it” (or whatever the reason was; I just guessed that).
Maybe the goal was to spur speculation, but I don’t know how that would benefit anyone. I’m curious if any additional info will come to light.
I no longer feel safe
Please don’t make assumptions
Yeah wtf is that. If there are reasons to feel unsafe that arent just entirely individual, then you should tell other people that might be in danger. If its entirely individual, then state that so that other people wont be worried about their safety.
It’s basically vaguebooking.
Wild. All I wanna do now is make assumptions. 🤣
Most of it was pretty much said in the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership. The TL:DR is that people are incredibly entitled, support took a huge downturn, but demands kept rising, and allegedly there have been numerous personal attacks on people. The Linux project leadership drama was just the whipped cream on top of the cake
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other OSs are catching up slowly but surely.
Which ones are those? Linux is a rock, it doesnt budge it just slowly but surely does its thing. Thats why people use Linux, because it serves its purpose and it has been doing that for a while without Rust.
There are a lot of other people also working on Linux gpu drivers. Heck I know someone at AMD doing it now. Lots of people seem to be oddly blowing this out of proportion like it will stop the entire ecosystem of Linux.
The project is for making unofficial drivers for Apple’s chips, which very few people are trying to do. Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.
Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.
good.
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Couldn’t decipher what you wrote there. Maybe it’s a result of the same cognitive dissonance that would push someone to deliberately support and buy vendor-locked Linux-unfriendly hardware, then want to run Linux on it.
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Good, why waste a perfectly good machine ;)
