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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.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 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?).

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      3 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        0·
        3 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.

          • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            0·
            3 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.

            • stewie410@programming.dev
              0·
              3 months 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                1·
                3 months 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
                  0·
                  3 months 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.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 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…

  • 𝔗𝔢𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔪𝔞@jlai.luEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    If the Rust maintainers keep dropping like this, I foresee Linux eventually losing its lead as an operating system. The transition to Rust is absolutely necessary, other OSs are catching up slowly but surely.

    And unlike AI, this makes an actual positive difference in maintainability and speed.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      3 months ago

      other OSs are catching up slowly but surely.

      Which ones are those? Linux is a rock, it doesnt budge it just slowly but surely does its thing. Thats why people use Linux, because it serves its purpose and it has been doing that for a while without Rust.

    • dinckel@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 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