Is that actually the purpose though? The appearance of diversity?
Maybe marcan42 just wants to present themselves that way.
Yeah, the culture war stuff is a big deal for people who don’t write code. But I don’t think their opinions are that important for Linux kernel. Pretty effective to have it as honeypot. Allows for easy programmatic filter out for non-coders.
Is that a fact or are you speculating?
Marcan42 accidentally posted on his twitter as Asahi Lina, and on screen Lina has accidentally shown things identifiable to Marcan (usernames, logged in mastodon account).
But he clearly doesn't want to be linked/equated to her for whatever reason, so I don't know why GP brought this up beyond stirring up drama.
There was drama with Lina and another person in the vtuber hacker space who directly referred to them as marcan.