Hector Martin / Héctor Martín Cantero / @marcan42 / マルカン / @marcan42x / @marcan@treehouse.systems / Asahi Lina / Asahi Linux - Developer of Asahi Linux with a VTuber persona. Made Byuu's death unbelievable. Constantly accuses others of harassment and abuse. Hates Hacker News and Kiwi Farms.

[Nanashi no kiwi]

This has been the case in a couple of open source projects where I ran into this turbofaggot. If anyone dared to not merge one of his dumb patches because it was either shitty code, in a weird style that didn't fit into the other code in the project, or disagreed with the way he fixed something, he would lose his shit and sperg out.

Usually he'd just tard rage "ZOMG GOOD LUCK GUIS YOU WILL NEVER MAKE IT WITHOUT ME" and everybody forgot about him a couple of days later, as he didn't add much value to begin with other than autistic tard rage.

For us non-tech kiwis, how talented is Hector, actually? From the outside looking in, my impression is that he's obviously got some degree of talent, given his exploits in hacking the PS3 and the fact that he worked at Google and seems to make a pretty comfy living doing what he does, so he's not a complete bullshitter the way a lot of trans-adjacent types are. However, he seems to have developed an ego that far outweighs his actual abilities. He seems to regard himself as some sort of wunderkind when he's just one pretty smart guy in a field that's filled with pretty smart people. And obviously this intelligence doesn't carry over into other fields, given his laughably transparent efforts to pass off Lina as some other person.

Between him and Liz Fong-Jones, I rather get the impression that this is a fairly common "type" in the tech industry as a whole - people who were probably one of the smartest kids in their classes growing up, got used to assuming that they're smarter than everybody else, and as a result develop an ego that keeps them from acknowledging that there are actually people out there who are just as smart, if not even smarter (gasp!), when they get out into the real world, and as a result become insufferable prima donnas that are nearly impossible to work with if you don't constantly stroke their egos.

 

[Kees H]

For us non-tech kiwis, how talented is Hector, actually? From the outside looking in, my impression is that he's obviously got some degree of talent, given his exploits in hacking the PS3 and the fact that he worked at Google and seems to make a pretty comfy living doing what he does, so he's not a complete bullshitter the way a lot of trans-adjacent types are.

From what I've seen of him, he's at least fairly competent. He's just hard to deal with because his ego is larger than Erriot No Dong Jones his fucking chin. If it's not all happening in the way he likes he goes into full-on nerd rage.

The PS3 hacks were mostly done by one super autistic math nerd in team FailOverflow, which figured out a issue with the ECDSA signing keys Sony used to sign games and updates. The video of the PS3 hack is here: Link. I timestamped at the moment the math nerd gets going. You can see in his slides compared to the slides from Hector that he's a true autist. The rest of the talk is also interesting, but more filler around how they figured out which kind of crypto Sony used.

Hector and his buddies made code around it to use it, but it's not Hector's finding. From what I can see he's at least good at working on implementing exploits and stuff around it to make it work. I am fairly certain his bff who killed himself as well (I see a pattern here, frens of Hector who an hero) Bushing did most of the legwork on the Wii exploits that used tweezers to short out the address bus on the Wii's system memory to abuse Gamecube mode for the first hack on the Wii.

But, imho, he way more competent than the avg tranny grifter online, like Erriot No Dong Jones, who just knows all the buzzwords and can code 6 lines of Python. The exploits on game consoles he was involved with are fairly well done, but again, his sperging gets in the way. He's so upset about piracy when a game console gets hacked and gets so moralfaggy all of the tech goes out of the window and he goes 'PLS DONT USE THIS FOR PIRACY OR I WON'T DO SHIT ANYMORE'. And I have serious doubts about his part in these console hacks. There's always someone way more competent but way more autistic around him that seems to have found the security issue.

 

[AnOminous]

From the outside looking in, my impression is that he's obviously got some degree of talent, given his exploits in hacking the PS3 and the fact that he worked at Google and seems to make a pretty comfy living doing what he does, so he's not a complete bullshitter the way a lot of trans-adjacent types are. However, he seems to have developed an ego that far outweighs his actual abilities.

He's also (at least partially) helped do something considered difficult if not impossible, i.e. a Linux for Silicon Macs which are deliberately broken to lock people into Apple's walled garden. The problem is he's such a mental case who can't get along with others that I honestly wouldn't put it past him to insert backdoors and/or other malware to get revenge on people he doesn't like, because that's just the kind of weird freak he is.

So I guess it's VirtualBox for me if I ever want to run Linux on a modern Mac. (It's something I usually do when they age out of being supported because good Linux distros keep supporting old hardware. Also I don't currently have a Mac because my two ancient MacBooks finally died.)

I just wouldn't trust anything with this creepy weirdo involved with it in any way.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

The problem is he's such a mental case who can't get along with others that I honestly wouldn't put it past him to insert backdoors and/or other malware to get revenge on people he doesn't like, because that's just the kind of weird freak he is.

If that ever becomes the case, we can always make a new distro using the same patchs as Asahi, until Asahi Lima (formerly Hector) commits a RedHat by consent-accidenting the entire source code.

 

[Kees H]

If that ever becomes the case, we can always make a new distro using the same patchs as Asahi, until Asahi Lima (formerly Hector) commits a RedHat by consent-accidenting the entire source code.

Well, Asahi Linux is already going to become a Fedora based distro, so he's one step away from putting it behind IBM's paywall.

 

[y a t s]

his bff who killed himself as well (I see a pattern here, frens of Hector who an hero) Bushing

Is there a source on this?

A memorial page on hackmii says natural causes. That is pretty vague, but a similar page on gbatemp says heart attack. I was able to find a forum post from a few hours before the gbatemp page that claims heart attack as well. These are not the most reliable sources, but maybe he had a condition idk.

 

[Kees H]

Is there a source on this?

A memorial page on hackmii says natural causes. That is pretty vague, but a similar page on gbatemp says heart attack. I was able to find a forum post from a few hours before the gbatemp page that claims heart attack as well. These are not the most reliable sources, but maybe he had a condition idk.

I can't remember the details, it might have been natural causes. I just assumed it was suicide tbh.

 

[y a t s]

For us non-tech kiwis, how talented is Hector, actually?

He's not terrible. For the Wii, the tweezer attack was a group effort that didn't involve him. Most of the hardware stuff was done by tmbinc (see: 1, 2). Hardware hacking is a completely different (but very fun) beast, so I'll leave that be. A wiibrew page on the various vulnerabilities credits him with a single finding, which appears to be a derivative of previous work by others. Most of his online postings seem significantly less in-depth from a technical standpoint in contrast to those of his peers as well, often relating to software built off the reversing work of others.

It's hard to say what his reverse engineering ability (particularly static analysis) is like, especially after all these years. Fail0verflow almost never publicly releases anymore. In general, it doesn't seem to be at a level to find many vulnerabilities himself. Implementation skills typically don't require the same mindset. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though; I certainly don't want to undeservedly diminish someone's work. Debuggers tend to piss me off, so I might be a bit of an elitist in this regard.

 

[Type93Torpedo]

For us non-tech kiwis, how talented is Hector, actually?

Here’s my opinion on it:
He is talented in some fields but absolutely trash at others.

Although, he did seem to lose some his talent moving forward from his past, which seems consistent with his rise in ego.

He did do something pretty interesting and hard with Asahi, although it’s more of a proof of concept than a actual OS in my opinion.

Well, Asahi Linux is already going to become a Fedora based distro, so he's one step away from putting it behind IBM's paywall.

That sounds like a awful idea. Both the paywall and moving it to a Fedora-base. Wouldn’t it be better to remain on Arch for something like this? Considering that it’s basically never gonna succeed if Hector doesn’t change his behavior soon.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

He's not a nocoder like "Coraline" Ehmke, he's not blogged pictures of his genitals like "Leah" Rowe, he doesn't waste his time on stuff that nobody cares about like Foone or Drew DeVault, and he's not trooned out like most of them. How is it that coding through an anime puppet makes you one of the saner tech lolcows?

 

[AnOminous]

He's not a nocoder like "Coraline" Ehmke, he's not blogged pictures of his gentials like "Leah" Rowe, he doesn't waste his time on stuff that nobody cares about like Foone or Drew DeVault, and he's not trooned out like most of them.

Yet.

 

[Fcret]

He's also (at least partially) helped do something considered difficult if not impossible, i.e. a Linux for Silicon Macs which are deliberately broken to lock people into Apple's walled garden.

Nah, running other OSes has always been supported for the Mac, even the Apple silicon ones. There's basically zero protections on it and you can boot anything you like via Open Firmware. The real breakthrough was writing drivers for all the poorly-documented Apple hardware. Which is not nothing but it's also not some insane technical breakthrough.

 

[Computer Guardian]

Nah, running other OSes has always been supported for the Mac, even the Apple silicon ones. There's basically zero protections on it and you can boot anything you like via Open Firmware. The real breakthrough was writing drivers for all the poorly-documented Apple hardware. Which is not nothing but it's also not some insane technical breakthrough.

So wouldn't it just be easier if someone (who isn't hector) just write drivers that are compatible for each major distro (I.e Debian, Slackware, Arch, ect.) and distribute those as part of the the kernel?, becuase if that's true... then Hector has been wasting his time making his barely functional distro when all he had to do was write drivers and keep them open source.

 

[Fcret]

So wouldn't it just be easier if someone (who isn't hector) just write drivers that are compatible for each major distro (I.e Debian, Slackware, Arch, ect.) and distribute those as part of the the kernel?, becuase if that's true... then Hector has been wasting his time making his barely functional distro when all he had to do was write drivers and keep them open source.

The drivers have been in the mainline kernel for a while now. Asahi just packages it all together with a nice installer. But you could probably LFS your own Apple silicon distro without too much trouble. There's even a version of Fedora in the works for them.

 

[Kees H]

There's even a version of Fedora in the works for them.

According to the Asahi Linux project this will be the main distro they will be supporting, so I expect some major sperging from the community about Hector and his tranny buddies getting close to Red Hat/IBM. The recent drama around RHEL going paid only and closing access to their source repos so that the other "enterprise linux" distros that just recompile the RHEL source isn't going to help his ass there.

 

[Fcret]

According to the Asahi Linux project this will be the main distro they will be supporting, so I expect some major sperging from the community about Hector and his tranny buddies getting close to Red Hat/IBM. The recent drama around RHEL going paid only and closing access to their source repos so that the other "enterprise linux" distros that just recompile the RHEL source isn't going to help his ass there.

Yes, the tranny fauxgressives turn out to be corporate bootlickers because the actual FOSS community projects like Debian refuse to join their gay crusade against Richard Stallman and GNU. Sounds about right.

 

[Computer Guardian]

Yes, the tranny fauxgressives turn out to be corporate bootlickers because the actual FOSS community projects like Debian refuse to join their gay crusade against Richard Stallman and GNU. Sounds about right.

Consitering the last thing Hector did before the thread's creation was bootlicking Apple, I'd say this is more a sign of things to come. which has a decent chance of there being an actual community effort to make it easy to have compiled kernels that use the drivers like Asahi does from the older distros like Debian or Arch.

 

[Fcret]

which has a decent chance of there being an actual community effort to make it easy to have compiled kernels that use the drivers like Asahi does from the older distros like Debian or Arch.

There'a actually already instructions for getting Debian up and running with an Apple silicon mac. ARM64 is officially supported by the Debian project and once you have a booting system, you can install pretty much everything in Debian's repos.

Arch is a bit of a trickier proposition - Arch's entire ethos since the beginning has been pure i686 and amd64 support (i686 is now dead). The current trajectory of the Arch project is to become more x86-64 oriented (supporting newer 'levels' of the ISA to take advantage of new instructions that have been added to x86-64 over the last 24 years). I imagine a big reason why Asahi is abandoning Arch as its base is because the Arch project doesn't build arm64 packages which means that pretty much all of the work of maintaining the Asahi repos falls on the Asahi team itself. Moving to Fedora means they can just focus on the Apple silicon specific stuff and leave package maintenance to the upstream ARM64 Fedora people.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Thank you all for the accolades, I did not expect that my night trials with Python and stylometry generate this much enthusiasm. Semper fi.

>Near is anything but cold and distant in person; those attributes were necessary façades grown in response to lifelong harassment and abuse.
You mean Near was, surely? Right, Hector?

This is a mistake that could be done subconsciously by Hector and would give credibility to the claim that Byuu lives and Hector knows about it. Very well noticed.

As for Hector vs Lina, you think it's intentional on his part or a marker set that isn't good for comparing tweets?

I did a simple statistical test earlier when I was doing this, Lina's toots have much shorter sentences on average (1.5x shorter). Because of that I did not try to do a Burrow's delta measurement (word use similarity) on them. Maybe it could show some similarities, but at this point it's sure that Lina is Hector, so this would be purely academic.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

(cannot add quote inside edit, sorry for doublepost)

This was such a good post I came back to read it again. Have you considered doing the same analysis on the Byuu extortion emails sent to Null?

No, but this is a great idea and I will do it.