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.

  • 🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
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.
Marcan seems to think that cozying up to Red Hat will never come back to bite him. Guess we'll see.
https://archive.ph/uCQRb
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Marcan explains his vision for Asahi Linux
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https://archive.li/zhTah
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LMAO. Marcan is inadvertently(?) blocking people using Dark Mode from reading articles on his Asahi Linux website. Even people coming from the Asahi Linux subreddit are being affected & complaining about it.
[This is part of a workaround he's using to try and block HackerNews users. Totally deranged. :story:]
https://archive.ph/zhTah
https://archive.ph/aPHzf
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LMAO. Marcan is inadvertently(?) blocking people using Dark Mode from reading articles on his Asahi Linux website. Even people coming from the Asahi Linux subreddit are being affected & complaining about it.
[This is part of a workaround he's using to try and block HackerNews users. Totally deranged. :story:]
The man is clearly mentally and emotionally unfit to maintain a codebase, as he can't get along with others, much as you'd expect from a weird pervert who faked someone else's suicide.
 
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.
He's already come out and said he was going to do this with wanting to block HN at the OS-level for anyone who's contributed. He was already redirecting traffic to his website with HN referrer data, even though overall the response to Asahi Linux seems pretty positive there. There's a few posters who have figured out that Hector is Lina when someone asks who Lina is, and he can't deal with being outed. He's just like all of these other fragile trannies who's worst fear is ego injury by people saying unapproved things about them in a space where they cannot control the conversation.

This is also just what he thought was appropriate to say in public. How knows how extreme his thoughts in private are. I would not put it past him to attempt to add some really shady shit like telemetry with a vague wokescold justification like not wanting his OS used for 'hate speech'. Hector is a hysterical narcissist who is unsuitable to make major decisions regarding a community project of any type. It's a shame that the project is being run by such a control freak weirdo.
 
More evidence to add to the pile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As mentioned before, Lina names "her" computers after Precure characters.
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Now look at this: https://archive.ph/87tle
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marcan@macherie <- That's a user (marcan) on a computer (named "macherie") demonstrating some terminal commands. It just so happens that Macherie is a Precure character. Pure coincidence, I'm sure! :)
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Random Reddit stuff.
As a side-note, I tried to scroll back to his early Reddit posts (he's been a Redditor since 2008), but it cut me off around 2020. Apparently Reddit doesn't allow you to do deep dives into a user's post history. Google searches and the Wayback Machine didn't help much either.

Someone complains about sound problems on Asahi Linux. Marcan acts like a child in response. https://archive.ph/adILL
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Some redditors refuse to use Asahi Linux for their home servers, saying it's not ready yet. Marcan comes into the thread to whine. https://archive.ph/mR8HI
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Marcan explains how he's able to remain in Japan. https://archive.ph/4TlPU
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Marcan comments in a Touhou thread which shows fanart of a Touhou character being groped. Marcan appears to be a big fan of the artist who made the fanart. 🧐 https://archive.ph/RG0Hr
This is what he linked (semi-nsfw), and this is some of the artist's other work (semi-nsfw). In his Twitter bio, the artist also has a link to his personal blog/website, which then links to three Pixiv accounts and a few other Japanese sites. Would not be surprised at all if there's full-on NSFW art in there, but I'm not going to go looking for it.
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Marcan comments in a thread about how Touhou is still popular... especially among kids. 🧐
https://archive.ph/WeY79
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Marcan said:
There's a lot of new blood. I've been following smaller/less experienced artists recently, and half of them are schoolkids (and some of them are really good and will definitely be going places). Plenty of kids at the Touhou Cafe when I was there too, Reitaisai just did a kids' illustration contest, doujin shops have talked about how a lot of their Touhou clientele is young, etc.
It doesn't matter if big names get jobs/families/whatever and might drop off the doujin community, there's always new people coming in.
Just a little bit sus, if you ask me... 🤔


A google search randomly turned this up: https://myanimelist.net/profile/marcan [Archive]
I can't verify that it actually belongs to Hector Martin, but I think it's interesting that the account was made in 2016 and is still active. The username is also in all lowercase, which is how Hector usually likes his "marcan" usernames to be displayed.
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I don't know enough about anime/manga to tell what these series suggest about Marcan (assuming the account belongs to him). Any secret weebs here who can do an analysis?
 
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Marcan is in his late 30s or early 40s, right? He's not some mid 20s zoomer? Watching anime at that age is one thing, but fuckin' PreCure? That show is legit for 5 year old girls and an adult male watching it is super fucking creepy.

His entire completed list reads like he has pretty shitty taste and watches whatever is popular. Also Made In Abyss is that really fucked up anime that has child gore (He scored it a 10/10).
 
LMAO. Marcan is inadvertently(?) blocking people using Dark Mode from reading articles on his Asahi Linux website. Even people coming from the Asahi Linux subreddit are being affected & complaining about it.
[This is part of a workaround he's using to try and block HackerNews users. Totally deranged. :story:]
I've been trying several times to get this message to trigger in several web browsers, I just can't get it even with HN open in the tab next to it with several read articles and clicking through HN to get to his shitty website. Do people really have such open browsers that they let any tracking software and javascript run on them?

Marcan is in his late 30s or early 40s, right? He's not some mid 20s zoomer? Watching anime at that age is one thing, but fuckin' PreCure? That show is legit for 5 year old girls and an adult male watching it is super fucking creepy.

His entire completed list reads like he has pretty shitty taste and watches whatever is popular. Also Made In Abyss is that really fucked up anime that has child gore (He scored it a 10/10).
Marcan is 32 currently, still terrible.
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Marcan is in his late 30s or early 40s, right? He's not some mid 20s zoomer? Watching anime at that age is one thing, but fuckin' PreCure? That show is legit for 5 year old girls and an adult male watching it is super fucking creepy.

His entire completed list reads like he has pretty shitty taste and watches whatever is popular. Also Made In Abyss is that really fucked up anime that has child gore (He scored it a 10/10).
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't Made in Abyss also have some borderline piss fetish scenes or something? I remember hearing some really sus shit about it besides the gore but don't remember if that was the thing.
 
I've been trying several times to get this message to trigger in several web browsers, I just can't get it even with HN open in the tab next to it with several read articles and clicking through HN to get to his shitty website. Do people really have such open browsers that they let any tracking software and javascript run on them?
You need to visit the HN submit link I believe. Although it looks like now it's some weird javascript that injects CSS? Can't get it to happen, my browser probably blocks it. This is the JS from devtools:
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fetch&&CSS.supports("mix-blend-mode","multiply")&&fetch("https://cdn.asahilinux.org/.h",{method:"GET"}).then(e=>e.json()).then(e=>{let t=document.getElementById("hnwrapper");e.forEach(e=>{let n=document.createElement("a");n.ariaHidden=!0,n.tabIndex=-1,n.classList.add("hnsucks"),n.rel="nofollow",n.href=e;let s=n.cloneNode();s.classList.add("hnsucks2"),s.innerHTML="Hi! It looks like you might have come from Hacker News (if you didn't, try turning off dark mode). We've consistently found large numbers of comments containing blatant harassment, abuse, and bigotry directed at multiple Asahi Linux developers in HN comment sections, which go unmoderated for long periods of time or indefinitely. These abusive comments rank highly in search results for our project and the names of our developers, and continue to do so to this day.<br><br>In addition, we find that only a tiny fraction of HN comments (often less than 1%) actually engage with the substance of our articles, with the majority being off-topic, misinformative, repetitive, or otherwise of low quality, making the overall value of HN exposure overwhelmingly negative for our project.<br><br>We have tried to raise the issue of rampant abuse and low-quality discussion with HN mods, but instead of replying they added <code>rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;</code> to links to our site (specifically), to make it harder for us to block HN traffic. We sent a further email and explicitly pointed out a thread with multiple severe instances of directed, explicit harassment at one of our developers (including multiple allegations of mental illness, direct insults, misgendering, and transphobic dog whistles, all unmoderated and publicly visible and indexed). Some of these were removed weeks later (after being up for months), but they stopped responding after we pointed out even more instances of abuse.<br><br>At this point, we are forced to conclude that Y Combinator and Daniel Gackle are actively choosing to platform hate and harassment against open source developers, and further are actively working to evade blocking of this harassment by those targeted. For this reason, we are not interested in traffic or commentary from HN. Please move on to the next story.<br><br>To Dang: Do better.",t.appendChild(n),t.appendChild(s)})})
 
I'm not especially a fan of anime, I just know enough to say that his list is bog standard shit. Some of the stuff is okay, like Hunter x Hunter, but aside from that he seems to prefer the generic otaku shit, shit that's about little girls(lucky star), school girls(take your pick), or furries. Then there's weird nonsensical choices like watching Battle of Gods and THEN watching the first 45 episodes of super, which fucking includes a filler retelling of battle of gods, while seemingly not watching the original dragon ball or Z, and rating random waifu shit like wolf and spice, and Made in Abyss, a show a friend of mine has pointed out may be created by a pedophile, over kino like Akira.
 
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LMAO. Marcan is inadvertently(?) blocking people using Dark Mode from reading articles on his Asahi Linux website. Even people coming from the Asahi Linux subreddit are being affected & complaining about it.
[This is part of a workaround he's using to try and block HackerNews users. Totally deranged. :story:]
This is how I remember him, if you disagree with him this is the kind of shit he pulls. He thinks he's important and everyone should do like he does, and he goes in a complete autistic fit is people don't agree with him.

What a faggot. This is just so super petty.
 
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't Made in Abyss also have some borderline piss fetish scenes or something? I remember hearing some really sus shit about it besides the gore but don't remember if that was the thing.
Tried watching Made in Abyss once, dropped it like a hot potato made of magma after two or three episodes after I saw a scene of an old guy looking into a small boy's pants and making comments about wanting to see his penis :cryblood:
 
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't Made in Abyss also have some borderline piss fetish scenes or something? I remember hearing some really sus shit about it besides the gore but don't remember if that was the thing.
Never seen it but I know that they dedicate an entire movie to a bunch of kids getting liquefied.
 
Then there's weird nonsensical choices
A lot of the stuff that he's scored badly seems to require more than half a second of thought to understand it. Paprika is one of the few I've seen (and akira, because everyone has seen akira); it's entertaining, but it's also a bit of a mindfuck, with themes that extend deep into what existence and personhood actually mean. Very metaphorical. An autist like Marcan wouldn't be able to grasp any of it; he clearly prefers simplistic or childish media. I will note that he's got a lot of what I believe are conventionally popular contemporary films and series on there, which means that he's a crowd-follower, when he isn't seeking out juvenile fap fodder. Not much in the way of historical series; essentially none of it predates the late 90s. I bet the only reason he has akira on there is to bolster his credibility amongst his fellow weebs.

Yes, I'm saying he's a weeb hipster. He's also fat.
 
I've tried it too, I also read part of the code when I went to this thread, pretty funny.
This is in a clean browser, even searched for an Asahi Linux article on HN to click through, nada.

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Couldn't get it to work no matter what I tried. New firefox profile, visited HN, HN's submit page, all 9 yards. Didn't work. Didn't work with my regular browser profile either, although it's pretty hardened so I'm not so surprised about that.


PS: Is it possible that the anti-HN code was fully removed? I can't seem to find it in the page anymore. I'm not that good with webdev, so if someone else could check, that would be appreciated.
 
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Tried watching Made in Abyss once, dropped it like a hot potato made of magma after two or three episodes after I saw a scene of an old guy looking into a small boy's pants and making comments about wanting to see his penis :cryblood:
Never seen it but I know that they dedicate an entire movie to a bunch of kids getting liquefied.
Man am I glad I generally avoid anything that isn't mecha, Berserk or Hokuto no Ken.


EDIT: Also of course the only mecha he has are the Unlike Other Mecha trio and Witch From Mercury and he only has Gurren Lagann on his to watch list, bet it is only because of how much of a midget Simon is at 15 yet how Yoko is 14 yet looks like a 20 year old, it would be a shame if someone informed him how Simon becomes a giga chad after the time skip. As for G-Witch, ugh. But I will stop before I begin power levelling big time.
 
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PS: Is it possible that the anti-HN code was fully removed? I can't seem to find it in the page anymore. I'm not that good with webdev, so if someone else could check, that would be appreciated.
It's still there, make sure you're on a blog post as that's the only place it shows up in. You can check by opening browser tools then searching for "hacker" in the HTML. It seems to just not reliably work because Hector Martin is a retarded faggot.
 
These are the anime I notice, though most of it is bog standard popular series with minimal depth and/or lots of lolis.

Features heavy lolicon elements from the 4th episode (Mayoi Snail), and has lighter parts before that. The series focuses almost exclusively from the perspective of Araragi, an unrepentant pervert who frequently sexually harasses the “legal lolis” featured in the series. This includes a 1,000 year old vampire, a 23 year old ghost loli, a 40-some year old loli doll. It appears as though he’s watched around half of the series, and given it all 7s.

I haven’t seem this movie personally, but I do know that the girl in it has a UTI and this has various peeing scenes.

Gay. Literally just a series about a young adult, Yuuri, who’s in love with his ice-skating idol, Viktor, who then scouts and starts to “train” him. It’s framed as being cute, but when you put any thought into it at all it’s a parasocial relationship turned predatory.
 
Random Reddit stuff.
As a side-note, I tried to scroll back to his early Reddit posts (he's been a Redditor since 2008), but it cut me off around 2020. Apparently Reddit doesn't allow you to do deep dives into a user's post history. Google searches and the Wayback Machine didn't help much either
Reddit limits all queries to 1000 results. It doesn't matter if it's watching a profile or going through a subreddit. I think the only exception is browsing hot.

There was the pushshift search engine which allowed you to search for anything. You could even search for keywords in a users comment history. But when spez sperged out about 3rd party apps, pushshift got axed, too.

If you're ambitious you can download the raw dump files yourself and use scripts:
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The google doc was written by Hector Martin. Why are you lying Hector? This is hard evidence. This is forensics, this is what the cops do with bomb threat letters (using more professional software).
Didn't really expect the accused pedophile Hector Martin murdered byuu and concocted a fake suicide note theory to be confirmed by true and honest police science. Why hasn't accused pedophile Hector Martin denied murdering byuu? Maybe byuu left some low quality comments on Hacker News and Hector saw red. I just hope the highly competent Japanese police can, perhaps with assistance from the incredibly competent U.S. State Department (source: accused pedophile Hector Martin), find and save Asahi Lina before she becomes the next alleged victim of accused pedophile Hector Martin.
 
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