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.

[Tismguide]

He probably doesn't have one. A drama addict always needs his next fix, perpetually.



He'll be talking about Christoph Hellwig, the guy Hector spazzed out over.

He appears to have quit one of his roles after Linus disagreed with him over the Rust/DMA issue.

Missed that, thanks. The Redditor made it sound like troon harassment got him but the lwn link makes it sound like he quit because of a technical disagreement with Linus. Who knows what was said in private, but it does not look like they got a scalp. The distinction matters to me because I'm trying to read the tea leaves of the pendulum swing.

 

[Penne Dreadful]

Who knows what was said in private, but it does not look like they got a scalp.

I'd read it as Linus getting two scalps - culling a C-nile resistant to his desire to embrace Rust and, at the same time, getting rid of one of the most obnoxious Rust sorts in the same breath.

 

[ScooterL]

Missed that, thanks.

To be fair, it was done without a lot of public drama and breast-beating, a concept which is alien to Hector.

 

[AnOminous]

What is Hector's endgame?

The usual downward spiral that starts when some already mentally ill dude troons out, culminating in byuuing himself.

 

[Atlas Sneezed]

F to anyone still using Wii in 2025

It literally doesn't matter. The HBC and the Wii homebrew scene is feature compete at this point. That's what's so funny about this. The binaries will keep working indefinitely and the software doesn't need anything anymore.

 

[The Noise]

Randomly heard about the HBC this morning, thought nothing of it until I went to check out the repo for myself. Audibly guffawed when I saw it was Hector fucking Martin throwing another temper tantrum. Never thought I'd encounter him in the wild.

It literally doesn't matter. The HBC and the Wii homebrew scene is feature compete at this point. That's what's so funny about this. The binaries will keep working indefinitely and the software doesn't need anything anymore.

Also, the code is still open source and available. Hector is acting like he's the end-all-be-all of Wii homebrew development when nobody gives a rat's ass about him. He's been buckbroken and humiliated by OSS developers who actually get shit done.

His last desperate gasp for relevancy after singlehandedly torpedoing the reputation of Rust In Linux is pissing on what remains of his legacy. At best he's going to get a day or two of attention on X and then flame out. Hope it was worth it Hector, you stupid piece of shit. Every project you've ever tried to sabotage is going to outlive you.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

More like the Homo-brew channel, amirite?

 

[Snorky]

"Waaahh! This guy stole source code from some random ass project from the 1990s!"

Who the fuck cares? The system has been obsolete for more than a decade and you chose to stay silent about the matter for more than a decade when you had the chance to civilly resolve it yourself, but you didn't. Imagine pissing on one of the few things people remember you fondly for because you are hopelessly addicted to burning bridges no matter how old, sturdy, or important they are. What an embarrassment.

 

[innocent jogger]

C'mon, Hector, get in the car, boy! We are going to take you to a nice farm upstate where you can run and play (in your dresses and socks) all day and everyone uses asshat-i linux!

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

More like the Homo-brew channel, amirite?

If I am right Hector was the guy who changed the letterb0mb logo to the gay rainbow one. I went to https://github.com/fail0verflow/letterbomb/tree/master to check for his commits but the logo in that repo is the old one. So he just swapped the file on the server without updating the source repo. That is not how we do things here, Hector!!

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

I have a theory that Hector's recent heightened instability is due to abusing estrogen. He's always been a prick but hasn't repeatedly crashed out on this level before.

 

[A Deer In Headlights]

Small update

Hector has updated the README again after the devs of libogc continue to claim that the code wasn't copied but rather used as a reference. Still the same techno-sperging about copyright infringement and morality however he does specifically try to drag WinterMute through the mud a bit by bringing up evidence that he has used Nintendo's SDK before for referencing and calling out his mismanagement of DevkitPro in general.

On the other side, WinterMute restored the issue Hector made to project but edited the comments replying to him (which is probably why Hector felt the need to bring him up in the README)

(Archive.is wasn't saving the full reply chain but here's a screenshot for now)

Spoiler: Issue #203

 

[REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!]

I have a theory that Hector's recent heightened instability is due to abusing estrogen. He's always been a prick but hasn't repeatedly crashed out on this level before.

I imagine that he's going to flip out pretty good once the estrogen renders him impotent and unable to coom. This guy jerks off to cartoons, he's probably bricked up and cranking it 24/7. That's gonna be one hell of an adjustment for an already unstable man. Here's hoping we get a show.

 

[David Spadem]

Modern Vintage Gamer made a video on Hector's spergout with Wii Homebrew Channel.

 

[Not Real]

This nigga is throwing a fit over "stolen" code in a program mainly used to run pirated games (~20 year old console btw)

The Linux drama well was running dry so he had to find something else to whine about

 

[verymuchawful]

Dude seeks out pointless conflict as if it's going to earn him some sort of recognition. Even if he was right, this is still the general reaction people will have to this.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

This nigga is throwing a fit over "stolen" code in a program mainly used to run pirated games (~20 year old console btw)

A long time ago he used to actually sperg about people using it to pirate games, too. NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T USE MY HECKIN SOFTWAREINO TO DO WHAT IT WAS DESIGNED TO DO

 

[Not Real]

I doubt the video will be taken down but just to be sure:

Spoiler: Local archive (not the best quality)

Lots of comments shitting on Hector so far, a few (partly) defending him

Spoiler: Some of the comments

Replies to that one ^

 

[Light-Blue Yoshi]

I CANNOT IN GOOD CONSCIENCE CONTINUE DEVELOPING THIS COMPROMISED SOFTWARE

Last bit of actual code authored by Hector is from 2016. The last decade has been tinkering with build scripts and headers. There is less than nothing to worry about and it makes his screed all the more petty.

 

[Not Real]

View attachment 7312592

The commit message lmao

You guys should be glad I only have a few spoons left for today...