Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development

[cadamsdotcom]

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.

[adager]

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

[ranger_danger]

What's with those comments? Wow.

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

[0x457]

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

[asveikau]

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

[tempaccount420]

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.

[stuaxo]

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

[duskwuff]

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

Correct. It's notoriously bad.

[latentcall]

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

[Wumpnot]

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

[wmf]

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

[runjake]

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.

[ranger_danger]

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

> overlay failed and revealed himself

Source?

[lifthrasiir]

Without a clear confirmation, you'd have to give the benefit of the doubt.

[pcwalton]

Because the article isn't about the identity of Asahi Lina. That may or may not be an interesting article (I'm deliberately being neutral so as not to spark off-topic discussion), but it isn't the topic of this article.

[Scuds]

jesus, when's 4chan going to turn up here?

[officeplant]

There of handfuls of programming v-tubers on twitch/youtube with avatars ranging from animals to anime girls and ASCII animations.

It's just another aspect of streaming culture at this point.

[wmf]

Police don't investigate online harassment 99% of the time.