from @Rowsdower
Do you want to run a Free Software operating system on your totally proprietary closed-spec laptop made by the world's richest computer company while somehow not getting the irony?
:talking:
https://i.rdrama.net/images/16862120678527915.webp
Asahi Linux is your only option because they have to reverse engineer all the user hating locked down hardware first, so you get a Lunix distro project led by an ex game console hacker Hector Martin (marcan). Orange Site users are fine with hardware that treats them as a threat as long as it's the newest shiny, but they won't stop trying to reverse engineer the identity of one of Asahi Linux's top contributors. The top three contributors listed on the official website are Marcan himself, an out and proud :marseytrain2:, and most interestingly a VTuber named after the distro (Asahi Lina).
https://i.rdrama.net/images/16862120673701227.webp
Asahi Lina, our GPU kernel sourceress. Lina joined the team to reverse engineer the M1 GPU kernel interface, and found herself writing the world’s first Rust Linux GPU kernel driver. When she’s not working on the Asahi DRM kernel driver, she sometimes hacks on open source VTuber tooling and infrastructure.
Lina does hit a :marseytrain: trifecta of reverse engineering + Rust + anime, but honestly FOSS is the one kind of doing it for free I can actually respect. You can't blame people for being curious though.
Back in March this Asahi blog post was discussed on HN and some commenters dared to raise the subject of Lina's identity, with some people pointing out how Marcan and Lina share a development machine (same hostname and in one stream Lina gets some file from marcan's homedir).
https://asahilinux.org/2023/03/road-to-vulkan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35234480
In response Marcan has a huge public melty on Mastodon where he responds to generalized HN comments point by point on Lina's behalf: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110060225535294882
https://i.rdrama.net/images/168621319258289.webp
I wonder if the driver could be ported to Mac OS? [Lina clearly said in the article that the UAPI is unstable, so no]
So Vulkan is 4/3 better now, vulkan.kext wen? [WTF, Lina clearly said don't take the absolute numbers too seriously, also you clearly didn't read the article if you think vulkan would be a kext]
Asahi Lina is truly an inspiration for open source reverse engineering.
I wonder how long it's going to take for games to start generally supporting ARM. [Lina literally explained the games on ARM plan at the end of the article]
[24 comments veering off into trying to doxx Lina and criticizing her]
:marseylaptopa#ngry2::marseyl#aptopangry2::marseylapt#opangry2::marseyla#ptopangry2::marseylaptopan#gry2::marsey#laptopangry2:
Then he blocks HN from linking to the Asahi Linux official website by redirecting visitors to google: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/commit/a720f6ca68805f336e844523fe3f37f6827019c1
if (document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")) {
console.log("Hacker News is becoming worse than 4chan. Do better.");
document.location = "https://google.com";
}
:marseysoycrytrem#ble: DO BETTER :#marseysoycrytremble:
Some time between March and now, Orange Site admins notice this and alter HN to apply `noreferrer` to asahilinux.org links so people can continue to discuss the #1 vanity project for the #1 vanity hardware platform on the #1 vanity tech forum. Yesterday, the newest Asahi blog post makes its way to HN and somebody points it out:
https://asahilinux.org/2023/06/opengl-3-1-on-asahi-linux/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36226493
Why does this posting have a rel=noreferrer tag, when others don’t? :marseygigathonk:
Marcan is immediately aware (I too spend time studying the markup of websites I claim to hate) and declares TOTAL JANNY WARFARE on Orange Site and everyone who has ever been there:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503050993279759
https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503331622393719
https://i.rdrama.net/images/1686212067958188.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1686212068343263.webp
Good job, Dang. You decided to evade a benign redirect to google.com we added to protect our developers. Now everyone who has ever submitted to Hacker News gets to see this banner on our website until they clear their browser history and stop contributing to HN. Don't even think about adding a hash to the submit link. We'll just change the link to your front page then, and then *all* your visitors will get the message, not just submitters.
Marcan has mastered the performative newspeak here, he's just trying to :marseyairquotes:protect Asahi developers:marseyairquotes: from all you unreasonable jerks who want to know who to thank for their working GPU driver: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/commit/5175aff478a985e721bff53a2bec7578f06e0b85
https://i.rdrama.net/images/16862120686377704.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/16862155119940987.webp
The best part is when he suggests forcing his HN block on Asahi Linux users too by default :marseyprotestno:
Eventually a meta thread is posted to Orange Site all about the drama but was jannied before I got to it (:marseymeangirls::marseytalking:) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36230649
Maybe Lina is Marcan. If you wanna go full schizo, maybe Lina is Byuu :marseyschizowall:. Honestly I don't really care either way because the important part is that it makes Marcan throw a huge tantrum to even speculate about this, which means it should be asked as innocently but as often as possible lol
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