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.

The person who originated the metaphor was trying to describe to a journalist how unpredictable the effects of chronic illness can be, leaving you fine one day and perpetually exhausted another. They wanted a simple, physical representation of the energy required to do "a task". They settled on a spoon, because they had a pile of them within easy reach. The metaphor goes like this: You will start out any given day with a greater or lesser number of spoons. Each arbitrary task - cleaning the house, loading the washer, driving to the store, whatever - takes away a spoon, or perhaps several if it's a big task. If you have a lot of spoons, you can perform a lot of tasks - taking spoons from the pile - and still have energy left over. If you only have a few spoons, you can't achieve very much before you're exhausted. A battery is a poor metaphor for this, because you'd be getting into charge levels and percentages used, with the whole thing being one giant indivisible lump. The whole point was to create a visual representation, not get into abstracts.

The spoon itself isn't that important; it could have been forks, or pennies, or pieces of bellybutton fluff. The important part - the part that was quickly abandoned by the narcs, remember - was to create an easily understood physical representation of how unpredictable your life can be when you have a chronic illness. In the hands of people like Hector, it's instead become a rhetorical way to avoid responsibility for their own shit-headed behaviour.
That makes sense. But I still don't understand how it's caught on rather than using more intuitive metaphors like a battery or a gas tank. I guess it's become a seekrit club inside-joke kinda thing for people who make their mild HFA their entire personality.

Anyway, Hector is fat and I would not have sex with him OR invite him onto my team.
 
Ragequit!

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I no longer have any faith left in the kernel development process or
community management approach.

Apple/ARM platform development will continue downstream. If I feel like
sending some patches upstream in the future myself for whatever subtree
I may, or I may not. Anyone who feels like fighting the upstreaming
fight themselves is welcome to do so.

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-M: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
M: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
R: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
L: asahi@lists.linux.dev
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Best regards,
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Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>

Thank fuck.
 
But I still don't understand how it's caught on rather than using more intuitive metaphors like a battery or a gas tank
He literally explained it in that post.
A battery is a poor metaphor for this, because you'd be getting into charge levels and percentages used, with the whole thing being one giant indivisible lump. The whole point was to create a visual representation, not get into abstracts.
 
The man that thinks he's a woman and a japanese cartoon is actively still posting on reddit.
I was looking up if the lina schizotypal delusion, if hector had its social media on treehouse also.

The japanese cartoon hallucination headmate admins its own mastodon instance, last post was 4 days ago.
Classic troon arc of posts talking about useful things like tech (with no engagement) to solely gooning content with his "cyan" fellow mental patient.

(Attached full screenshot and archive from today, last was 5 months ago. Even though fedi stuff stick around)

So after ragequitting he retreats to his hugbox of the few people in the world extremely retarded enough to depend on him for anything.

There was speculation that the treehouse ogre tranny did the suspension, but here is marcan confirming he deleted it.
Title is "What happened to Marcan's masoton page?"
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Reddit hugbox in full effect
(Full screenshot attached)
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"My gross tranny delusions were an asset to kernel development. My DEI cancer was doing a great job of rotting away the actual competence there."

Then tranny vagueposting so no one can confirm nor deny and he can just have full force in the delusions in his head that he was Good and Right. (See his sperging about being on the "right side of history" over just banal minutiae of fucking getting rust in the linux kernel)

These absolute fucking morons, maybe relying on an unstable tranny for your actual OS is an uhm... BAD idea?


Fortunately (or unfortunately) for anyone that depends on or hopes to depend on apple silicon trash support in the kernel, Sven Peter is still around to maintain it.

Sad for him, he is a normal man that looks like this:
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And not only has to clean up the mess the fat tranny hector made over this, he will probably have to interact with hector the tranny going forward, and deal with his histrionics, and not just nullroute the spergouts.

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The actual hilarious part is in the kernel dev mastodon discussion, it's agreed that rust has support for inclusion in the kernel from top maintainers and especially head faggot linus torvalds, and this weird spergout was late and totally unecessary; since the faggot greg KH stepped in and sidelined christoph hellwig's whinings in the very thread hector sperged out in.

Rust support will be added and is being added and the specifics are just being worked out for important things like DMA.

Internally rust in the linux kernel devs actually went aside and tried to get hector to sit out for a while because they knew he would just blow shit up and spew histrionics.

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about Christoph Hellwig blocking rust, but not really

Is a kernel developer blocking the success of Rust for Linux? Yes and no!​

Feb 4, 2025 at 3:40 pm CET
6 min. read
By
  • Thorsten Leemhuis

A maintainer of the Linux kernel recently refused to include Rust code in his territory, which is essential for many drivers – thus apparently dooming the efforts to use Rust to program more than just simple Linux drivers in the future. At least that is the impression given by numerous reports on Linux news sites and statements in forums or on social media platforms.
Two things usually fall by the wayside: this kind of banter is more common in Linux development – and solutions are usually found sooner rather than later that all those involved – can live with, if necessary, with gritted teeth –. This is also to be expected here. The backing that the numerous central and long-established kernel developers give to the Rust for Linux efforts – Torvalds included, should ensure this.

Blockade of code for an essential technology​

The current uproar has been triggered by statements from the maintainer of Linux's DMA mapping helper code, Christoph Hellwig: he has rejected the inclusion of changes to use Direct Memory Access (DMA) in drivers written in Rust – a technology that has been essential for proper performance for decades and saves the processor a considerable amount of work. Hellwig called on developers to integrate the code directly into Rust drivers instead – but this makes maintenance more difficult for other developers and contradicts modern code design practices.
In the course of the discussion, which has been ongoing since the second week of January, Hellwig later emphasized that he had no interest in dealing with code written in several programming languages – and mentioned that this applied to assembler just as much as to Rust. He also rejected the suggestion that the DMA Rust code should be stored separately and maintained by someone else; he also spoke out very harshly against allowing Rust code to penetrate central areas of the kernel.

The Linux kernel is actually not one project, but hundreds​

The discussion between the developers recently flared up again after LWN reported on it. There is no amicable solution in sight. Disputes like this have already occurred dozens of times in Linux development on other topics. No wonder because what the outside world sees as a kernel is actually more than a hundred principalities under the aegis of Linus Torvalds.
Although the princes work together on bigger things, they have far-reaching sovereignty over their area –. A code formatting, bug report or patch submission that is correct for one subsystem may be rejected as fundamentally wrong for another. Naturally, the various subsystem maintainers also disagree from time to time about the big picture and the interaction between the different areas, which leads to disputes such as the current one.

When in doubt, Torvalds decides​

Sometimes the princes play tricks to get around a blockade of another subsystem. Sometimes this works with a bit of brute force on the part of those involved, but sometimes it comes to blows. When in doubt, Linus Torvalds sooner or later puts his foot down – either for real or by accepting code against the express will of a maintainer.
In the worst-case scenario, the maintainer packs his bags, but this rarely happens. The last major conflict of this kind was the extensible process scheduler, which the maintainers of the process scheduler resisted for a long time – until Torvalds let it be known that he would accept the code in the medium term anyway. This happened over a year later with Linux 6.12.
An outcome of this kind is also likely in the current conflict. Until this happens, however, Torvalds usually stays out of public discussions – so it is no wonder that he has not responded to a request for a statement on the Rust DMA issue.
It is therefore quite possible that the current conflict will continue to smoulder until a driver that relies on DMA and is written in Rust is to be incorporated into the kernel or until their number increases. However, the former could soon be the case: A Red Hat developer has just submitted the first parts of the Nova graphics driver written in Rust for integration, which supports modern Nvidia GPUs and is intended to replace the “Nouveau” driver. DMA is essential for this driver.

Subsystem maintainers are often already under high pressure​

Incidentally, be careful with hasty classifications of blockages such as those of the Rust DMA code: There are often hidden reasons for this. Many subsystem maintainers, for example, are hopelessly overworked because their employer gives them very little time to look after the upstream code; there are also many maintainers who do the job entirely in their free time. For many, the boundaries between working hours and free time are blurred.
It is therefore understandable that maintainers resist changes that could lead to interpersonal problems, complicate the warnings or further increase the workload for no good reason. This includes, for example, closer collaboration with perhaps unloved or unknown developers as co-maintainers – or code in another programming language that the respective subsystem maintainer does not know and cannot or does not want to learn in an evening. In addition, such code can also make planned conversions impossible or significantly more difficult.

Insights into disputes that remain secret elsewhere​

Sometimes such blockades are therefore just levers to draw more attention to problems or to get other players to release funds to alleviate them. This also happens in the development of kernels for macOS or Windows, but behind closed doors within the company. But in the end, the same applies here as there: many things are not eaten as hot as they were previously cooked.
(olb)


Thorsten Leemhuis (normal) interacting with Sima "Simone"


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Some gross tranny "cas" shows up and thinks sperging out on the LKML is like some kind of civil disobedience and gets an asspat of:
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For those interested, the https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger has some behind-the-scenes kernel development process reporting (not drama but more dry linux kernel development political process).


Also he just won't go away and shut the fuck up and is still bleating for attention, namedropping fat faggot linus:
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Honorable mention, daniel "sima"/"simone" vetter is one of these top-tier disgusting trannies. And he is the sima chiming in in the threads of hector's spergout saying hector has lost it.

Still has this normal guy picture on his mastodon
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And actually references it:
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And he looks like this
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From:
XDC 2024 | CoC Team: Processes, Guidelines, Oversight - Sima Vetter et al.
at 2:29

Note the fat flab sticking out over the tight jeans, obviously bright "look at me" pink shirt.

So enough porn exposure during the covid lockdown caused sima here to fully troon out.

In the video he immediately grabs the mic and talks more than anyone else in the talk, constantly grabbing the mic (more specifically, makes noise).

And, of fucking, course he inserted himself into the CoCsucker board for X.Org.
There was a great post about how you let troons in, you no longer have a game company, it's all troons.

Trannies should not be part of anything let alone any kind of board with any sort of power.
It's an absolute giant flashing warning sign with a loud siren going "I am so fucking mentally unstable I'm doing this to my own body and I expect others to entertain this mental illness"


What an experience it must be to just be a family man, working some corporate gig, going to annual linux conventions, and someone that seemed like a normal dude shows up one day and is demanding to be called "simone" in a tight pink shirt with his man fat hanging out.
You must think you were in a land and universe where a nigger grifter like kamala harris was actually elected president.

Also is nice how a lot of the perverts tell on themselves and end up on the gross mastodon instances instead of just normal ones.
Can't be partially deranged, it goes all the way.
 

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He is the worst person to say this. The last thing I would do is screech at the people I'm trying to convince and create a secret list to shame them, then engage in autistic slapfights while I make a grand scene over me leeeeeaving development.

He should just take the L, but that would be a huge bruise to his ego. Or maybe he doesn't "have enough spoons" or whatever.
He is a mentally ill troon. Very narcissistic and turbo autistic. Completely unable to negotiate or handle even minor disagreements with any other person.
Completely incapable of working with other people or finding common ground where interests might have even the smallest of divergence or conflict.

Remeber not that long time ago when he also had a full estrogen tranny chimpout because someone told him that he needs to use email and pull requests and
the established processes everyone else uses to send patches to upstream for review? And that was a personal attack and basically genocide. Also, all these
processes were bullshit and didn't apply to him because he is much smarter than you guys and you are retards if you don't change and do everything the way I want.


Christof is 100% right. This type of retarded faggot can not be depended on. Once there is real or imagined pushback the tranny will rage-quit and leave you holding the bags.
There is a bug that needs to be fixed? Well, sucks to be you, because you have inherited ownership and responsibility for that code now because the retared tranny ragequit because of random reason. Maybe Trump made a tweet that made his brain melt. Anyway doesn't matter the reason, now you own his shit code. Congratulations!

Christof is 100% right. This is not just about rust but about the long term management and supportability of the kernel. You can not let faggots like this contribute any code in critical areas
because they are not reliable as maintainers. At the drop of a hat they might either burn all bridges and rage-quit, leaving you to clean the mess up, or worse they might try to sabotage the project.

Christof is 100% right. You can not allow trannies to touch critical core code or subsystems.
 
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Found this amusing also.


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[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself Hector Martin (Thu Feb 06 2025 - 13:30:31 EST)

Ohh hector, as you are a tranny and therefore irredeemable, if only you knew how soon you actually will be "removing yourself" and joining byuu in the polycule in hell.

Hector ragequits at "Thu Feb 06 2025 - 13:30:31 EST"

Then proceeds to schizopost as the delusion three times after, on the same day:

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Of course as he continues to bitch:
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Trannies. Not even once.
The only thing they succeed at besides horrifying normal people is shutting up when they finally hang themselves.
 
But I still don't understand how it's caught on rather than using more intuitive metaphors like a battery or a gas tank. I guess it's become a seekrit club inside-joke kinda thing for people who make their mild HFA their entire personality.
Pretty much. The original anecdote the metaphor sprung from was some made up bullshit effort post on Tumblr, so the OP is probably long gone or difficult to find. Now it serves as a good litmus test to see who is part of the outgroup: Do they just just accept this retarded metaphor with no question? They'll probably do the same for everything else you say. Do they ask questions? Cut them off, they're a muckraker.

The awkwardness of the metaphor is a feature not a bug.
 
The involved trannies are also a bit clueless about the processes.

Yes, Both Linus and Greg are positive and talk about the process.
But they basically mean to try to work and see if there is an approach that would satisfy both the conserns of the maintainers (Christof) but also be useful enough for the Rust-faggots.
This is the normal process, you hash it out until you find a solution that works for all parties. It might not be the optimal solution for everyone but it often ends up with something that everyone can live with.
Often this would happen on the list, on smaller private discussions or face to face meetings at say LFS/MM or similar.
It can take years.
But also, sometimes you can not find a solution and then you just have to move on with life and still be able to co-operate with the people that you disagreed with.

This doesn't work with troons since
1, they know their solution is the best
2, any criticism or suggestion for changes is a personal attack on the troon
3, it has to happen now. If the solution is not accepted as-is immediately then that too is a personal attack

The concept that Ljnus and Greg would override Cristof's NACK is however completely delusional.
As a very senior developer for this subsystem and other subsystems, with a track record of DECADES in the linux kernel, as one of the most trusted top maintainers in Linux there is absolutely zero chance that they would just override his NACK. Not gonna happen. No matter how much estrogen fueled brain makes you think so.

Linus and Gregs support here is, as always, just to try to make an avenue for the parties to work together and sort things out. It is not a "or else Linus will just overrule Chrostof and mergeit against his public NACK".
Not gonna happen and these troons are objectively retarded if they even entertain the idea.


It is all moot thought because the process is now broken.
Hector has fucked things up so bad that there is likely no way to get the parties into a room and have any kind of good-faith discussions on alternative approaches or work in good faith towards a solution.
Good job Hector. Christif's NACK now stands unchallenged and there is no longer any possibility of even seeing if a solution could be worked out.
 
Hector is a ridiculous bitch, a whiner, and a social media brigading asshole, but there is one thing I can agree with him on. There needs to be a movement to memory safe languages. That is well past due. Many 0-day bugs are a result of using non-memory safe languages and people making simple mistakes in such code. Using an inherently memory safe language would mitigate this problem. I understand why people continue to use non-memory safe languages, not only do more people know them at an expert level, but they have a number of advantages as a result of their long history of use. But, at some point it has to be decided to cut ties with practices that are inherently detrimental in a number of serious ways.

I'll adopt The Crab when The Crab is ready. It's not ready. I understand and appreciate all the cheerleading for Rust, but the big push for Rust in the Kernel is probably the biggest misstep Linus has has made in a decade.
All that drama, for virtually no results.
 
Trannies should not be part of anything let alone any kind of board with any sort of power.
Troons are the main thing I dislike about Rust. The general concept is really good even if it's sort of tard training wheels to keep people from writing dangerously bad code re memory. The only other thing I dislike about it (I don't know enough to have any real theoretical quibbles about fine details) is people rewriting stuff that was already working fine in it, but the rewrite is weird and janky. And a lot of that kind of stuff is from troons too.
 
Hector is one of those rare dickheads who are so utterly insufferable you don't even care if they're right or wrong, you just want them to shut the fuck up.
This hit me. I mean, that Sima person is another troon and right now, I don't fucking care; she's roasting the shit out of this fat retarded asshole and I love it.

That's peak Hector. He's toxic to other troons and autistic Rust and Linux programmers. That's like getting kicked off the short bus.
 
I'll adopt The Crab when The Crab is ready. It's not ready. I understand and appreciate all the cheerleading for Rust, but the big push for Rust in the Kernel is probably the biggest misstep Linus has has made in a decade.
All that drama, for virtually no results.
It will never be ready, it's an unpractical language from it's very premise. And Troons are running the show, they need to be purged from ever touching a public repo again and some competent people put in charge. Then we might see if it's salvageable.
 
He took a break for a while and toned down his emails unfortunately: https://www.newyorker.com/science/e...sive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside
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“Please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place"... I wonder what his KF username is?
Torvalds is mellowed out due to his age. But if he decides to use this tone if the trannies piss him off further, it should mean something.
Some of those niggers should see the signs and detransition at the least. The grift is over.
 
Honorable mention, daniel "sima"/"simone" vetter is one of these top-tier disgusting trannies. And he is the sima chiming in in the threads of hector's spergout saying hector has lost it.
https://chaos.social/@sima https://archive.is/9xDju
Still has this normal guy picture on his mastodon
Hector apparently aims to be the same type. Note the "he/him" on mastodon and not officially admitting yet to be a troon :lit:

His vtubing ex-friend LunaFoxgirlVT has also spoken publicly again:

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https://archive.is/evNIr
https://archive.is/Wa6nW
https://archive.is/LrLcE
https://archive.is/OzKeJ
 
There was speculation that the treehouse ogre tranny did the suspension, but here is marcan confirming he deleted it.
Title is "What happened to Marcan's masoton page?"
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https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1ij567l/what_happened_to_marcans_masoton_page/ https://archive.is/lXcE8
I'm still suspicious of this. As was pointed out earlier:
Nah, he got jannie'd
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Archiving a page where it says he got suspended is not possible afaik, archiver tries to open suspended profile directly and server returns with 404 page.
Searching for that username shows the page like above.
Archiving API lookup request link does work, so there it is, better than nothing IMHO, take a note of "suspended".
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It's very easy to assume his account was deleted (as I did originally) since the link to his account just takes you to a 404 page. However, there are allegedly some key differences between Mastodon account deletions vs suspensions. Here's some AI slop:
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Supporting evidence: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/moderation/#suspend-user
According to this... since Hector's account was suspended, he should be able to fully restore it any time within the next month.
To be blunt: I think Hector's lying about his Mastodon account being "gone for good", and he'll probably restore it in a few weeks after this drama has blown over. That archive you made might come in handy. :lol:
Or hey, maybe I'm just completely wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We'll have to wait and see, I guess.
 
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Hector apparently aims to be the same type. Note the "he/him" on mastodon and not officially admitting yet to be a troon :lit:

His vtubing ex-friend LunaFoxgirlVT has also spoken publicly again:

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https://archive.is/evNIr
https://archive.is/Wa6nW
https://archive.is/LrLcE
https://archive.is/OzKeJ
Abuse? What are the allegations? Vtuber on vtuber abuse?


The concept that Ljnus and Greg would override Cristof's NACK is however completely delusional.
As a very senior developer for this subsystem and other subsystems, with a track record of DECADES in the linux kernel, as one of the most trusted top maintainers in Linux there is absolutely zero chance that they would just override his NACK. Not gonna happen. No matter how much estrogen fueled brain makes you think so
I mean not really, it has happened before. But in this specific case, I think the reason why the subsystem maintainer was probably going get overruled by Linus or Greg was that the change sets that caused all of this weren't even part of that maintainer's subsystem (the code lives outside of said subsystem afaik). He was only cc'ed because it relates to it, but it's not actually a part of it.
 
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