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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 20 points 3 days ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 71 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

RIP Asahi Linux.

Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What fascists are ruining OSS?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days 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 95 points 3 days 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.

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days 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

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Don't tease gossip? Either say "I'm quitting due to personal reasons" or give actual details "I'm quitting because I received ongoing abuse about being trans on X from several users and I'm fed up with it" (or whatever the reason was; I just guessed that).

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 3 days 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 2 days 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

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 18 points 3 days ago

It's basically vaguebooking.

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[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days 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 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership

What announcement?

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This and this

[–] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

ooooh. All Cats Are Beautiful. (if we say ot together it makes nazis and special police uncomfy :)

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 50 points 3 days ago (22 children)

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

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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