Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
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·March 18, 2025cadamsdotcom
anonfordays
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Moomoomoo309
If your source for this is kiwi farms, don't post it here. Don't fill HN with their garbage, please.
anonfordays
Marcan is Lina. It's no longer something to be questioned.
From Asahi Lina's creator:
> It's the worst kept secret in history that I had to keep alive, I have no interest in keeping it alive anymore.
> I mean, Lina started as an april fools joke on Marcan's youtube channel
> So yes, Marcan is Asahi Lina, Asahi Lina is Marcan. It's not a secret, it never really was.
> Only really became one when Marcan found out he liked vtubing.
And if you don't like Twitter, Luna is also saying it on Bluesky:
> My abuser (asahi lina/marcan) is a Linux kernel contributor.
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
FifteenthLetter
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asveikau
Too early to tell now for the HN thread, but I came here thinking "this will be a hell of a comment section"...
phoronixrly
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...
irelephant
I always thought there was too many linux sites compared to the amount of linux users anyway.
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.
ranger_danger
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
ponorin
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.
tempaccount420
Wow, it was really bad.
duskwuff
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...
alexvoda
Notably, even if Phoronix disabled the comments, they have not administered any consequences to the main offender
stuaxo
I doubt it, some of the commenters there have been terrible for years.
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.
FifteenthLetter
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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.
FifteenthLetter
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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?
swagmoney69
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FifteenthLetter
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0x457
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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?
sweetsanity
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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.
anonfordays
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wmf
Police don't investigate online harassment 99% of the time.
anonfordays
What harassment? The kind Hector tried to organize on Mastodon against the Linux kernel developers?
wmf
We haven't seen what DMs he was getting. It's true that he was escalating the drama but some threats are never acceptable.
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.