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.

[Borax Bozo]

Additionally, on Pixiv, it’s retardedly difficult to privatize likes. There isn’t a singular account-wide toggle like on say Twitter, it’s instead an individual toggle for every piece. On Mobile at least you have to hold down to access the menu, click your options from there, and then click out. While normally liking is just a single tap because the former is only a couple years old at most. So anything pre-2020 or so has always been public to my knowledge. And this may be different for Premium users, which makes his public pornography even funnier considering he’s still paying for it despite seemingly abandoning the account.

He might be doing searches for specific content. One of Pixiv's deliberate pain points that it uses to make people upgrade is that it won't let you order searches by popularity unless you subscribe. So if you've got a new anime waifu you want to see the best pictures of you need to pay to see things in anything other than chronological order.
(There might also be the possibility that he has permanent free subscription as an ex-member of Pixiv staff?)

 

[Markass the Worst]

Archive of Hector Martin segment from today's MATI (timestamp 55:21)

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Why's he even doing a distro, anyway? It's hard and boring. Hector, you'd be better off just concentrating on writing the kernel drivers.

What @teriyakiburns said about control, and I think it's also about fame and the Asahi Linux brand. If you are writing kernel drivers you are a nameless developer amidst a sea of commits, or an employee of Broadcom or some other hardware maker. If you are making a special distro that is only for M1 macs, you can roleplay an uber 1337 master hacker who singlehandedly ported Linux to Apple Silicon all while wanking off to crusading against imaginary byuu murderers on Kiwifarms.

Are Asahi specific changes being mainlined into the kernel? I wonder how long (if at all) until I will be able to download arm64 Ubuntu, Arch or Debian to boot and install on M1.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

When I was installing Kali Linux on my Windows 11 laptop through the official website, I noticed that you can get a download that allows you to install it on Apple Silicon computers.

 

[Fcret]

Are Asahi specific changes being mainlined into the kernel? I wonder how long (if at all) until I will be able to download arm64 Ubuntu, Arch or Debian to boot and install on M1.

Yes. They've been merged into the mainline kernel for like a year now. There are install scripts for Debian and you can also just LFS it. The only real 'trick' to it is writing a script to run in MacOS that makes a new partition, makes it bootable, and unzips the equivalent of a gentoo stage3 tarball to it (you can just build one of these yourself in MacOS if you're going the LFS route).

The only thing Asahi really has as an advantage is that it ships the latest changes to MESA for M1 hardware accelerated graphics by default. But you could just get marcan's branch and build it yourself.

 

[Roland TB-303]

Do Apple users even want to use Linux on their silicone Macs? Why spend $3000 or more on the hardware only to use another OS?

 

[Pee Cola]

When I was installing Kali Linux on my Windows 11 laptop through the official website, I noticed that you can get a download that allows you to install it on Apple Silicon computers.

It's only a matter of time before more of the established distros release their own Apple Silicon ports. Asahi Linux has very little brand recognition, and the only people who know about it also know about Hector. Very much a double-edged sword.

I know if I was jonesing to run Linux on an M1 or M2, I sure as shit wouldn't touch Asahi. I'd wait until my favourite reputable distro brings out a port.

Do Apple users even want to use Linux on their silicone Macs? Why spend $3000 or more on the hardware only to use another OS?

I can sort of understand if someone wants to run Linux on an ARM-based laptop as there aren't too many out there, but buying a desktop M1/M2 Mac and running Linux on it is sheer lunacy when there are dozens of ARM-based SBCs that'll do a better job of running Linux than an Apple Silicon Mac currently can for just a fraction of the price. Maybe not quite as fast, but it'd be a lot less janky.

 

[Fcret]

I can sort of understand if someone wants to run Linux on an ARM-based laptop as there aren't too many out there, but buying a desktop M1/M2 Mac and running Linux on it is sheer lunacy when there are dozens of ARM-based SBCs that'll do a better job of running Linux than an Apple Silicon Mac currently can for just a fraction of the price. Maybe not quite as fast, but it'd be a lot less janky.

You can make use of the x86-compat shit and rosetta tech in Linux, which means you can actually run a lot of x86 shit (esp games) that isn't really feasible to run in MacOS. The x86 translation is pretty performant thanks to some features that Apple added to their chips. Very few ARM SBCs can really do that and the ones that can tend to be far more expensive than just buying a Mac mini.

 

[Pee Cola]

You can make use of the x86-compat shit and rosetta tech in Linux, which means you can actually run a lot of x86 shit (esp games) that isn't really feasible to run in MacOS. The x86 translation is pretty performant thanks to some features that Apple added to their chips. Very few ARM SBCs can really do that and the ones that can tend to be far more expensive than just buying a Mac mini.

Why not just run x86 stuff on an x86? I seriously wonder what goes through the head of someone who buys an Apple Silicon Mac with the intention of running x86 shit on it. Especially if they have no intention of using MacOS.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

Do Apple users even want to use Linux on their silicone Macs? Why spend $3000 or more on the hardware only to use another OS?

Look up Jeff Geerling on YouTube. He made a few videos about compiling the Linux Kernel on a M1 between Asahi and MacOS, and Linux is constantly much faster.

He's also a Raspberry Pi nut, he attempted many time to plug a GPU on a CM4, debugging and even contributing to the kernel and drivers.

Plus with the new ARM Mac Pro (which bas many PCIe slots), Apple doesn't even supports GPUs on MacOS. Linux will provide the required support.

 

[Churros con Manteca]

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Raw mail - LKML archive

 

[Kees H]

Too bad the pozloaded folks sent Torvalds to sensitivity training and got assmad about him telling retards that they are retarded. I guess old skool Linus would have told Hector to stop being a weird faggot and just email as himself.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Mail of Asahi Lina is localhost in mail.marcansoft.com, which would mean it originates from the same mail transfer agent or some obscure email setup, regardless this clearly entangles both Marcan and Lina.

It doesn't prove anything, unfortunately - it's common to use regexes to stop Postfix leaking your IP address, by replacing it with "localhost".

It's already known that Lina uses Marcan's infrastructure:

$ dig asahilina.net NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
asahilina.net.          7200    IN      NS      ns2.marcansoft.com.
asahilina.net.          7200    IN      NS      ns3.marcansoft.com.
asahilina.net.          7200    IN      NS      ns1.marcansoft.com.

 

[Churros con Manteca]

Too bad the pozloaded folks sent Torvalds to sensitivity training and got assmad about him telling retards that they are retarded. I guess old skool Linus would have told Hector to stop being a weird faggot and just email as himself.

Ojalá, but if you see Linus after post-troonblackmail that his daughter was involved you'll notice that he's not the same from before, he was even dunked one time by Fediverse users.

It doesn't prove anything, unfortunately - it's common to use regexes to stop Postfix leaking your IP address, by replacing it with "localhost".

Drats, you are right. Although there's the likely chance that the e-mail came from the same SMTP server, it's also plausible that Marcan configured Postfix to hide Lina's IP per what you've said. Still, cool fact about mail services.

 

[Fcret]

The writing was on the wall for Linus the second the largest contributors to the kernel were private corps like Intel, Google etc and the largest sources of funding were those same corporations. Sure I'd prefer if Linus were allowed to still call people niggers on the LKML but I can make peace with him being on a leash if it means we get open-source GPU drivers from AMD and shit just werks.

IMO no open source project can survive going corporate without changing its culture. I think the Linux kernel culture is still mostly alright which is better than what happens to most projects.

I will say that Linus deciding to raise his family on the west coast was probably the worst decision he could have made as a father.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

He may be a cow, but he knows his stuff. Running his own nameservers, on different IP blocks no less, and running his own mail server - even among techcows that's pretty good.

Hector, one thing you're missing is that you don't have a backup mail server in case mail.marcansoft.com goes down. I suggest using the Hetzner VM you're using for ns2.marcansoft.com as a relay.

 

[Fcret]

He may be a cow, but he knows his stuff. Running his own nameservers, on different IP blocks no less, and running his own mail server - even among techcows that's pretty good.

I think the thread overall tends to try and look for shit to dab on wrt Marcan's technical competence, but it usually comes off kinda lame.

Marcan is a cow not because he's incompetent but because he's an obese Spanish hon who's too scared to transition so he pretends to be an anime girl on youtube. He's a fat fucking Iberian living in a tiny Japanese apartment filled with loli merch and blocking traffic from HackerNews because the people there are not universally sucking his pre-HRT cock. But he does actually know his shit in spite of all that.

 

[Kees H]

I think the thread overall tends to try and look for shit to dab on wrt Marcan's technical competence, but it usually comes off kinda lame.

Just to clarify: that is not what I meant in any of my posts about this pedophile his technical capabilities. He certainly knows his shit, but he's a namefag who likes to claim more credit than what he's due when working in teams (like in FailOverflow/Twiizers back in the day), and he's a moralfag & autist who is impossible to work with.

 

[Pee Cola]

Marcan is a cow not because he's incompetent but because he's an obese Spanish hon who's too scared to transition so he pretends to be an anime girl on youtube. But he does actually know his shit in spite of all that.

Hector might be smarter than the average bear, but the value he places on what he knows is grossly overblown. The fact that he blames GRUB for something that's broken in Asahi Linux is just one example among hundreds (if not thousands) of examples where he expects the entire FOSS sphere to worship the ground he walks on.

King Terry's code makes even the best of Hector's code look like "Hello world". Heck, Null would most likely smash Hector in a code-off.

Hector is more technically competent than say Liz Fong-Jones, but so is the typical pajeet that's moved past relying on Stack Overflow copypasta to do the needful.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

I think the thread overall tends to try and look for shit to dab on wrt Marcan's technical competence, but it usually comes off kinda lame.

I partly agree on this, but at the same time he uses the same nickname on the pedophile central Pawoo (we discussed why he does not think it is a problem), and Lina uses the same machine on streams as him (again, we discussed it here, and it would only take to spin up a VM to avoid the "identity leaks"). He knows enough about hardware to maintain some form of a Linux kernel fork and at the same time he is too stupid to let go and defer maintaining a distribution built around it to someone else. Or write a working HackerNews visit detector.

He knows how to set up a server, he know how to run Linux networking infrastructure, he even knows enough about postfix to run his own mail exchange, something even the most experienced sysadmins I know do not attempt to. He knows a lot about computers. But simultaneously he is such a blunt moron when it comes to everything else around computers that it's hilarious to watch. Which is why we are here. He is such a bad liar, a petty control freak, a loli coomer and amateur manipulator that his vast technical knowledge only fuels the fire of lolcowdom and brings major lols every other week.