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Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development

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53 pointszorpner45 comments

Focusing on the work and the people:

The silent majority appreciate each of you, Asahi Lina, Alyssa Rosenzweig, and Hector Martin. You don’t hear from them because it’s not in their nature, for better or worse.

Your generosity and hard work have made possible things that previously seemed impossible. Wonderful things exist because you worked to make them. Thank you.

Does the author not know that Asahi Lina is Hector's vtuber alias? He writes as if they are two separate people.

What's with those comments? Wow.

Edit: Upon further inspection... almost every phoronix comment thread seems to be this toxic.

It has everything that certain group hates:

- rust

- rust in linux

- vtuber persona

- vtuber persona's gender that doesn't match gender of person under that persona

Too early to tell now for the HN thread, but I came here thinking "this will be a hell of a comment section"...

Typical phoronix-style inflammatory blogspam. If this is what it takes to keep a Linux news site afloat, we're better off without any.

Also, as always, the article is below HN's level...

I always thought there was too many linux sites compared to the amount of linux users anyway.

> Edit: Upon further inspection... almost every phoronix comment thread seems to be this toxic.

Correct. It's notoriously bad.

Did they disable the comment thread visibility for anon/not-logged-in users? I hope they deleted the comments instead of only hiding them from the public eye.

They disabled the entire comment thread, even if you're logged in:

Sorry, you are not authorized to view this page. For assistance contact the site administrator.

Here's one of the pages I still had open: https://0x0.st/81X4.png

Wow, it was really bad.

If you find this shocking, you're in a quite fortunate bubble.

i am still able to see it; perhaps you're not a paying subscriber, which i (regrettably) am.

edit: yes you do need a phoronix premium or have been a forum member for 3+ years to view the thread.

Can you upload screenshots for archival purposes? Thanks

Unfortunately I have just cancelled my subscription, which has terminated my membership immediately. I don't want to reread the atrocious waste (or expose them to others) anyway.

Sounds like a good opportunity to save yourself some money.

Why?

Paying money that seemingly goes entirely to supporting a comments section dominated by trolls seems like a bad idea to me. YMMV I guess.

I do not get it. Money pays the creator of the website. That he does not have resources nor the desire to moderate the comments is a small detail.

I find nothing offensive in the comments I do not read, BTW.

Not sure about the forum member part, I've been onboard since 2019 and it shows the same error message on my end

It looks as though they specifically disabled the comments for this article (or moved the thread to an subforum which isn't visible to the public).

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

Notably, even if Phoronix disabled the comments, they have not administered any consequences to the main offender

I doubt it, some of the commenters there have been terrible for years.

I can’t even view the comments without signing in. Probably a good thing.

It's like the worst of the edgy Linux users of the 90s, but somehow worse.

What is unsafe about writing some code? I don't get this.. also this is like an anime character...wha..?

The code is safe because it's Rust (I'll be here all week) but the death threats are the unsafe part.

For those that are unaware:

Asahi Lina is an alternate “vtuber” personality of Hector Martin. So it makes sense his alternate personality would also quit.

Rather than rehash it yet again, you can do an HN comment search for “asahi lina“ and get the facts.

TL;DR: Hector has goofed a few times and revealed himself on livestreams. I was super interested in this work.

I watched a couple of them myself and can confirm at least 2 of these incidents, including one where his vtuber video overlay failed and revealed himself.

Anyway, don’t want people to be confused with what’s going on. He’s got problems, like us all, and I hope he finds peace.

Edit: Alyssa Rosenzweig is a real person and not one of Hector’s identities. And quite brilliant.

> Lina is an alternate “vtuber” personality of Hector Martin

> overlay failed and revealed himself

Source?

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