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Asahi Lina: 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. (mastodon.gamedev.place)

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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 16 points 1 day ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

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

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 17 points 1 day 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.

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Wtf is with this downvote brigade?

Edit: if anyone else is as fucking lost as I was, apparently this is some situation where the person who is resigning is trans, so obviously not attention seeking behavior even if the post is written in a truly bonkers way. Hence the downvote brigade for the above. Whether that person knew or not is open for debate since I don't see anything in the OP indicating anything at all to this effect and had to get it from an unrelated thread but...

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

RIP Asahi Linux.

Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 day ago

What fascists are ruining OSS?

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day 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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[-] Mikina@programming.dev 103 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.

[-] notarobot@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours 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

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Maybe the goal was to spur speculation, but I don’t know how that would benefit anyone. I’m curious if any additional info will come to light.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

It's basically vaguebooking.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 1 day 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 4 points 5 hours 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

[-] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 1 day ago

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

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 63 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