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It involved large parts of the Rust community, and the famous Rust developer Hector Martin (with an alter ego of Asahi Lina, a female vtuber, which he appears i
by iurbwdj 10mo ago
It involved large parts of the Rust community, and the famous Rust developer Hector Martin (with an alter ego of Asahi Lina, a female vtuber, which he appears irrationally embarrassed about), harassing others.
Even Linus Torvalds called out Hector Martin.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292 https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 01:19, Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:
> > If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.
> How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.
> You think you know better. But the current process works.
> It has problems, but problems are a fact of life. There is no perfect.
> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.
> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics.
> Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no than\k you.
> Linus
https://archive.md/uLiWX https://archive.md/uLiWX
https://archive.md/rESxe https://archive.md/rESxe
- CursedSilicon 10mo agoIs there any evidence "Asahi Lina" is Hector?
- xphos 10mo agoIsn't Asahi Lina Married to some other japanese Vtubber now? I mean maybe you'd fake all that but I doubt it. Both are more likely real people who are different. The people have totally different eccentricties its really hard to fake that type difference for a long time. [source] https://x.com/Lina_Hoshino/status/1862840998897861007 https://x.com/Lina_Hoshino/status/1862840998897861007
- glenstein 10mo agoThank you for asking this. It was presented matter of fact and I would not have appreciated that it was something less than settled. The best I can find from googling was rumors and speculation (insert comment in reply with more rumors and speculation). I also don't necessarily think it means someone is a Bad Guy if true. I want people to be able to have anonymous alter egos online if that's what they want and they're not doing any harm.
- CursedSilicon 10mo agoBeing called a "concern troll" for daring to question such a bizarre accusation makes me think it's just a bunch of weird losers
- deleted 10mo ago[deleted]
- mos87 10mo ago[flagged]
- CursedSilicon 10mo agoOh. So you're just transphobic. Got it
- mos87 10mo agohttps://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/29e3c1410f2d4636adba8d276ed1d0d9.gif https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/2... And islamophobic too. Take note.
- amiga386 10mo agoThere is. You can easily find by googling "hector martin" "asahi lina" and you will soon find a pile of obsessively archived evidence. My view, now that Hector has resigned from the LKML both as himself and as Lina, is there is no problem any more. If Hector wants to project a persona, or decide his identity is the persona, or maybe multiple personas, that is fine on social media. People do that. So long as he's not sockpuppeting Linux kernel maintenance, it's fine.
- CursedSilicon 10mo agoInstead of prompting me to "do my own research" (spoiler: The 'evidence' is lacking and is mostly tedious speculation) you could provide something more compelling
- amiga386 10mo agoPreviously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35252948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35252948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979681 Hector does active work to try and prevent being associated to his Lina persona, mainly by continuing his vendetta against former associate and co-creator of the Lina character, Luna the Foxgirl.
- mos87 10mo agoIt all depends on the value each and every person brings. Otherwise, I'd rather chose to work with a normal colleague rather than with someone who can't keep his obsessive schizophrenia out of work process. I guess this should be the baseline.
- leadingthenet 10mo agoAt this point I suspect anyone who even asks that question of concern trolling. The evidence is overwhelming.
- CursedSilicon 10mo agoThat's a weird way to avoid providing evidence :)
- leadingthenet 10mo agoYou're right: I didn't answer the question, because I suspect it was asked in bad faith to begin with, given that a simple online search would yield ample evidence. Much of which has already been discussed here on HN. Given that you've dismissed said evidence provided in other comments as not compelling and/or you attacked the source without addressing the evidence, I think my concern was well placed.
- mos87 10mo agooh no not again. yes, like 99.(9)%
- dplm 10mo ago[flagged]
- CursedSilicon 10mo agoIf by "forum" you mean one of the most vile places on the internet. Sure Also interesting "first post" for a 13 hour old account...
- dplm 10mo ago[dead]
- CursedSilicon 10mo agoI don't consider the opinions of a bunch of deranged children "evidence" They're too busy lying to themselves about what they did to Byuu/Near
- dplm 10mo ago[dead]
- iknowstuff 10mo agoLinus Torvalds rips into Hellwig for blocking Rust for Linux: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wgLbz1Bm8QhmJ4dJGSmTuV5w_R0Gwvg5kHrYr4Ko9dUHQ@mail.gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wgLbz1Bm8QhmJ4d...