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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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[-] mke@programming.dev 11 points 9 hours ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 10 points 13 hours 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.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Pretty much proves that it is the „anime alter ego” of the guy. My god, the times we live in.

[-] Kuranashi@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

There are a lot of other people also working on Linux gpu drivers. Heck I know someone at AMD doing it now. Lots of people seem to be oddly blowing this out of proportion like it will stop the entire ecosystem of Linux.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 16 points 11 hours ago

The project is for making unofficial drivers for Apple's chips, which very few people are trying to do. Without Asahi, you can't run Linux on Macbooks.

[-] Kuranashi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah thanks for the summary.

Still, very odd to buy expensive hardware that is required for running macOS due to their use license just to run Linux on it. Maybe if you bought it first and then wanted to move away from it, but that seems like a big headache.

Another reason to be wary of Apple then.

[-] badmin@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.

good.

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

RIP Asahi Linux.

Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 21 hours ago

What fascists are ruining OSS?

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 55 points 21 hours 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?).

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 day ago

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

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour 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 46 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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.

[-] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 5 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] axum 13 points 10 hours 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.

[-] stewie410@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

From my admittedly third person perspective, I wouldn't classify it a "hate site". A "lolcow" (or who they classify) tracking/doxxing hub, sure. Completely unhinged, sure, but I dunno if I'd consider it a "hate site" specifically...I'd also saying writing it off as just hateful really doesn't do it justice, for how bad it really is.

If anyone's interested in a broad overview of the history/point of KF, I'd recommend reading the first paragraph of Section 2.

[-] axum 8 points 7 hours ago

They literally give space to nazis at that site.

What criteria in your head makes a site qualified for it to be a "hate" site to you?????

[-] stewie410@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

I'm saying classifying it just as "hate" isn't doing justice to what KF is. I would probably classify Xwitter generally as a "hate" site (these days, anyway); but KF is much worse. In a similar vein, I always wouldn't say 4chan is a "hate" site, as that doesn't quite cover it.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago

TBF, your previous post reads to me the opposite way, like 'it is not enough of a hate site'. Also I would offer you to look at it as a Venn diagram, if something is a hate site and more, it is still a hate site, just with extra

[-] stewie410@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

TBF, your previous post reads to me the opposite way

I was concerned with this, but seems my attempt to not sound like a KF supporter was unsuccessful.

It's also not lost on me that I'm probably being pedantic.

[-] axum 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm open to new verbiage for its description.

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

A forum where trolls congregate to gossip and organize harassment.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 15 points 16 hours ago

Ugh I forgot that shit hole was still running

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours 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 21 hours 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 17 hours 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 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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.

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[-] Mikina@programming.dev 89 points 1 day 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.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 11 points 13 hours ago

It's basically vaguebooking.

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.

[-] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 1 day ago

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

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day 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

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