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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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[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

RIP Asahi Linux.

Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What fascists are ruining OSS?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 34 points 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?).

[–] mke@programming.dev 23 points 3 months ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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 10 points 3 months ago

It's basically vaguebooking.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 3 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

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] rah@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership

What announcement?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago (22 children)

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

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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