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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.

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[-] Mikina@programming.dev 107 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Damned right I read that and thought "It's your first day on the internet?"

There is a small match lit in the floor it will probably snuff out itself but just to be sure let's put it out with gasoline

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago

It's basically vaguebooking.

[-] notarobot@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 4 months ago

Wild. All I wanna do now is make assumptions. 🤣

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

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

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 76 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

RIP Asahi Linux.

Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 4 months ago

What fascists are ruining OSS?

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 76 points 4 months ago

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?).

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 51 points 4 months ago

First Marcan, now Lina. Huge blow to the Asahi project :(

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

~~Twas the same person, AFAIK~~

Edit: Apparently they're not, or at least there's a bunch of controversy there I have absolutely no intention of getting into.

[-] axum 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 months ago

Ugh I forgot that shit hole was still running

[-] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago

What's kiwi farms? I'm not really in the loop on this issue.

[-] axum 28 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A forum where trolls congregate to gossip and organize harassment.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Was not aware there was any controversy about this. Just something I had read in another forum. If that's the case I obviously retract my earlier comment.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure that's been debunked. If you can find a credible source, I'd like to see it.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Was not aware there was any controversy about this. Just something I had read in another forum. If that's the case I obviously retract my earlier comment.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You haven't actually retracted the statement. People have terrible reading comprehension and if you don't at least ~~strikethough~~ your comment, people will read only that part and repeat it.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

True. Done!

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[-] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

So... people like the nu-age shortcuts but not the ye olde ones?

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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...

[-] axum 60 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Spinning more drama around this project, that’s what it needs.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 18 points 4 months ago

Yeah classic attention seeking behaviour. Just say you're stopping work on it for personal reasons, or give details. The only reason to tease gossip like this is because you like the drama.

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[-] mke@programming.dev 22 points 4 months ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

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