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Exciting! I can't believe the incredible rate at which progress is being made on this front. And by a sophomore(?!) undergraduate student no less!

jesse_cureton 6y ago
Alyssa was one of the primary developers behind the Panfrost open source drivers for a subset of Mali GPUs - she's a brilliant engineer and great to work with.
pantalaimon 6y ago
She also wrote panfrost while still in high school.
- azinman2 6y ago
  Is there an interview / write up with her somewhere? That's incredible for most people let alone a high schooler.
  - leetreveil 6y ago
    https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2019/10/03/alyssa-rosenzweig-panfrost/ https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2019/10/03/alyssa-rosenzw...
  - l1k 6y ago
    XDC 2018 - Lyude Paul & Alyssa Rosenzweig - Introducing Panfrost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtt2Y7XZS3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtt2Y7XZS3k
    - ralfd 6y ago
      I guess both presenters are trans? Interesting how many notable trans* programmers/engineers the field attracts.
ognarb 6y ago
You would be surprised by the amount of high-schoolers doing incredible work in open source software.
- tomnipotent 6y ago
  Like George Hotz, who at 17 removed the SIM lock on the iPhone and a few years later got sued by Sony for breaking security on the PlayStation 3.
  - Medox 6y ago
    Obligatory George Hotz (geohot) PS3 rap from back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg First time he appeared in the PS3 jailbreak scene I was like "wait, is this a Romanian?! Some boy-genius expat?!" because George is a common first name here and (fun fact) Hotz means "thief". Actually it is written hoț but Romanian teens sometimes write tz instead of ț. He was meant to be a key thief, I guess. I still wonder if they got to examine the video in the courtroom...
  - marcan_42 6y ago
    As someone who has seen both of them work (and who got sued on the same lawsuit)... I wish people would stop putting geohot up on a pedestal. His entire career has been about self-promotion (something which he is very good at), but he got his start taking credit for other people's work (that SIM lock stuff was largely just implementing stuff other people told him about). He even took credit from my/our (fail0verflow's) work when he did the thing that got him sued (published some PS3 private keys), which was just him implementing the ECDSA attack we had detailed in a presentation a week prior, without a single mention until I emailed him to ask him to do so. Alyssa's Panfrost work is leaps and bounds ahead of anything geohot has ever personally done. Pretty much everyone of our profile gets started at around that age (I was porting Linux to a weirdo ISP router at 14 and working on Wii hardware and homebrew, the first "well known" thing I did, starting at 16-17), but somehow geohot has marketed himself to be some kind of genius when he's one of the more mediocre hackers I've known. He's not bad these days, but he has always represented his skills as being way better than they actually are, and taken solo credit for work that involved other people, his entire career.
vaxman 6y ago
Progress? They're forcibly hacking something that Apple doesn't want them to have. If this was the iPhone, that would be one thing (hint: Apple has a monopoly on the productive consumers and via AppStore, developers), but the Mac is and has always been private and the suggestion it is a monopoly is laughable. There is no justification for this, other than "I can haz Linux on my Air/Mini hilk hilk."

jesse_cureton 6y ago

Alyssa was one of the primary developers behind the Panfrost open source drivers for a subset of Mali GPUs - she's a brilliant engineer and great to work with.

pantalaimon 6y ago

She also wrote panfrost while still in high school.

azinman2 6y ago
Is there an interview / write up with her somewhere? That's incredible for most people let alone a high schooler.
- leetreveil 6y ago
  https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2019/10/03/alyssa-rosenzweig-panfrost/ https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2019/10/03/alyssa-rosenzw...
- l1k 6y ago
  XDC 2018 - Lyude Paul & Alyssa Rosenzweig - Introducing Panfrost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtt2Y7XZS3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtt2Y7XZS3k
  - ralfd 6y ago
    I guess both presenters are trans? Interesting how many notable trans* programmers/engineers the field attracts.

ognarb 6y ago

You would be surprised by the amount of high-schoolers doing incredible work in open source software.

tomnipotent 6y ago
Like George Hotz, who at 17 removed the SIM lock on the iPhone and a few years later got sued by Sony for breaking security on the PlayStation 3.
- Medox 6y ago
  Obligatory George Hotz (geohot) PS3 rap from back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg First time he appeared in the PS3 jailbreak scene I was like "wait, is this a Romanian?! Some boy-genius expat?!" because George is a common first name here and (fun fact) Hotz means "thief". Actually it is written hoț but Romanian teens sometimes write tz instead of ț. He was meant to be a key thief, I guess. I still wonder if they got to examine the video in the courtroom...
- marcan_42 6y ago
  As someone who has seen both of them work (and who got sued on the same lawsuit)... I wish people would stop putting geohot up on a pedestal. His entire career has been about self-promotion (something which he is very good at), but he got his start taking credit for other people's work (that SIM lock stuff was largely just implementing stuff other people told him about). He even took credit from my/our (fail0verflow's) work when he did the thing that got him sued (published some PS3 private keys), which was just him implementing the ECDSA attack we had detailed in a presentation a week prior, without a single mention until I emailed him to ask him to do so. Alyssa's Panfrost work is leaps and bounds ahead of anything geohot has ever personally done. Pretty much everyone of our profile gets started at around that age (I was porting Linux to a weirdo ISP router at 14 and working on Wii hardware and homebrew, the first "well known" thing I did, starting at 16-17), but somehow geohot has marketed himself to be some kind of genius when he's one of the more mediocre hackers I've known. He's not bad these days, but he has always represented his skills as being way better than they actually are, and taken solo credit for work that involved other people, his entire career.

vaxman 6y ago

Progress? They're forcibly hacking something that Apple doesn't want them to have. If this was the iPhone, that would be one thing (hint: Apple has a monopoly on the productive consumers and via AppStore, developers), but the Mac is and has always been private and the suggestion it is a monopoly is laughable. There is no justification for this, other than "I can haz Linux on my Air/Mini hilk hilk."