And why are we getting a picture of her?
So if I spot her in public I can ask for an autograph.
clearly on the spectrum…
very based
personally grateful as i daily drive asahi linux
posting this comment from an m2 macbook pro running fedora asahi
We need more people who know how to reverse engineer
We need more open hardware standards. Late-stage capitalism ruins everything.
You observe input and output across the entire API surface with every combination of discrete configuration options possible, then determine the function by which those outputs can be reproduced with the same parameters?
You can probably automate collection of the I/O data. Determining the function probably requires some extra brain juice.
Does it get more fancy than that?
It’s gets more fancy when you try to reverse stuff like Dunuvo
Sometimes I think I’m smart then I hear stories like this and I’m humbled.
She is a hero and a legend. It just makes me think, it’s so sad that we live in a world where the most altruistic, talented, and capable people make less than those that are the best at taking advantage of three system and others for their own greed.
That’s what our economic system suppresses to bring the losers to the top.
Wanna bet someone else profited off her hard work in some fashion without her seeing a dime? I know AI did.
Did you know that the board game “Monopoly” was originally called The Landlord’s Game, meant to showcase how property ownership breaks the capitalist system for the common man?
A capitalist came along, rebranded it “Monopoly”, took all the credit and lived like a king.
Sweat of my brow indeed.
Usename checks out
That’s not a wish, that’s prophecy.
Alyssa reverse-engineered Apple’s M1 GPU with no public documentation and developed an open-source Linux driver.
Be like Alyssa.
I’d rather watch her do that than someone doing triple saltos at the olympics.
This is way more impressive. 10/10
No need to diminish Olympic athletes. They worked very hard to get there. There are plenty of influences you can diminish instead.
Fuck the Olympics. It hasn’t been anything other than a corporate entity intent on making money above all else in almost a hundred years. IOC tramples on the rights of many people every day and the entirety of the organization can burn in hell
Seriously? I’m diminishing Olympic athletes? Go get your moral outrage gatekeeping fix somewhere else please.
At age 20, she reverse-engineered the Apple GPU. At age 40, I got the LED to blink on my Arduino.
I used a toothpick to get some apple shell unstuck from my gum.
… by yourself !?
I mean I have decades of doing all sorts of IT work and this is way beyond my level. Absolutely amazing.
I have such immense respect for people who know how the bits are physically flowing through a machine. I took classes about it but I can’t imagine doing that daily, it’s so tedious.
And imagine doing it without expecting a cent!
It’s the challenge of it though.
thaaaaat’s the shit, when it finally cracks and you laser focus on implementing your solution. better than drugs.
The high of cracking an intractable problem (pre-AI) was just unreal. I’d struggle to sleep, awaiting the morning so I could get back at it.
Nothing groundbreaking but writing my own Huffman compressor in C and seeing the whole thing work knowing where nearly all the real physical bits were going, was seriously satisfying. Recommended exercise ☺️
yeah I remember not being able to get my voltron lion to run in basic when I was in junior high.
You mean you can’t just get Apple’s driver to work on Linux by turning it off and on again enough times?
or even by recompiling the kernel when apples driver is not part of it.
I’m 30 and I wiped my own ass. So I’m feeling pretty accomplished.
Wins no matter how small are wins!
Don’t compare yourself to others, just enjoy the learning process & satisfaction it hopefully brings you for every single win, no matter the size!
Arduino is a fantastic platform for learning, I still remember a lot of my ‘firsts’ with it, I had no idea what I was doing, we all start somewhere. Have fun!
While I agree partially, want to mention that having someone to compare to is not as bad as it sounds. Its only bad if you think its unreachable and you give up doing anything. Sometimes you need a hero to look up and fight and dream about it, for the motivation. I think looking up to people like Alyssa’s work is inspirational. In a similar way how I look up to those magicians who create emulators… but that is a different topic for another day.
It all adds up ⬆️
Alyssa Rosenzweig. Not Resenzweig. It means Twig of Roses. Here’s her website: https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/
Canada has been killing it for like 50 years, being all the things the United States thinks it is
I knew I should’ve escaped to Canada during Trump 1, they seem to be feeding and educating their kids right (except Alberta fuck Alberta ;) )
Canada does a lot of things better than we do, but all the things, really? They, too, have serious problems in their healthcare and educational systems. They’ve got severe staffing shortages in hospitals and long wait times, and their IEA scores are dropping across multiple subjects relative to international standards. Most younger working class Canadians alive today do not expect to buy a home maybe ever.
I don’t mean this as a tu quoque, we have huge problems here too and like I said Canada does a lot of things better than we do, but this kind of starry-eyed adoration can only end in disillusion.
PS don’t look up when the last documented “starlight tour” was
I had heard that other provinces university’s apply a 2 to 3% bump in GPAs to applicants from Alberta. The Alberta reason: They respect the advanced program as being more difficult. The other provinces reason: charity for the poor students raised there with a heavily exam-based GPA.
♥️🌹
Big Ups. Respek.
Some missing links:
- https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Rosenzweig
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Linux
Alyssa Rosenzweig, GPU lead. Alyssa is a Linux graphics hacker. After reverse-engineering the Arm Mali GPUs and building the free Panfrost driver for them, she did the same magic trick on the Apple GPU and built the userspace Asahi graphics drivers.
Thank you. This is the sort of news I need in my day.
Pretty flipping sweet if you asked me.
And beside those who survive (and provide us with great software), let us spare a thought for the ones who didn’t, proof the opensource community can be an evil pit of haters: marcan and AsahiLina.
Both quit for different reasons, but both did it facing extremely unpleasant behaviours.
As a regular Asahi user (m2pro mbp), I literally felt the project slowing down when they quit.
An outcome of that crisis was the buildup of an organised directorial structure, with funding through the “Open Collective” organisation. That’s good, and it’s full of good people in there. Alyssa is an admin now btw.
Let us wish them all the best (and strength against all evil neckbeards).
Lina rebranded as Hoshino Lina and is working on an open source implementation of Live2D now.
Wasn’t Asahi Lina alter ego of marcan? Or am I misremembering things
Part of the hate campaign. Anyone following both accounts at the time was quite puzzled by the hypothesis.
Their haters were going around and concern trolling that they were the same person. Anyone outside of the scene would take it as a stated fact and repeat it without knowing.
Allegedly. There was no evidence either way, and ultimately it doesn’t matter anyway.
Of you look at all of the work behind Asahi, it’s incredible. I’m so grateful for heroes like Alyssa who are saving millions of computers from landfills when Apple no longer supports them
How far developed is asahi now? Is every hardware working? Last time i looked into it wifi didn’t work, i think. So i thought it was not useful for me.
I applaud them for their thankless work. I hate that it’s necessary in the first place.
Name is misspelled in the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Rosenzweig.
Also, wow, impressive.Makes we want to buy a second-hand Apple device just to try it out.
I ran it on my M1 mini for several months a year or so back. At that stage it was probably 90% of what I needed it to be, which was bloody impressive. After I no longer needed it for work, I tried using it as my Home Assistant server, but with only 8gb RAM, ultimately it ended up being far more efficient to run HA in a virtual machine in macOS.
But yeah, if you can pick up an M1 for a good price, give it a go. It’s good fun.
m2 is also well-supported
I’ve already been using Linux for ten years, it definitely puts the fun back into computing. This would actually be primarily to know how to install it on a Mac, because when offering to install Linux as a replacement for Windows in groups I am part of, there have been multiple requests for doing so on a Mac. Unfortunately always had to answer I’ve never done so, so couldn’t promise anything.
Anyway, is €375 for an Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1, 256GB a good price?
I do, now!
IIRC Apple were refusing to implement open standards because they were trying to force developers to use their proprietary Metal API.
I don’t know if a lack of direct support is exactly the same as trying to force everyone, as they could’ve easily prevented her from reverse engineering this project, but that’s sort of splitting hairs and they definitely know they have an open source community who would appreciate even a modicum of support that they’re ignoring.
It’s people like her who make life worth living. People who solve hard problems that need solving (or sometimes don’t even need it) are the best people.
…without asking a dime. Just love for the game.
VLC springs to mind.
Yes exactly! And exactly!
VLC exists because they wanted the university to upgrade its networking infrastructure so they could play CounterStrike.
The circle of life and terrorists.
