At age 20, she reverse-engineered the Apple GPU. At age 40, I got the LED to blink on my Arduino.
I mean I have decades of doing all sorts of IT work and this is way beyond my level. Absolutely amazing.
You mean you can’t just get Apple’s driver to work on Linux by turning it off and on again enough times?
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!
yeah I remember not being able to get my voltron lion to run in basic when I was in junior high.
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!
It all adds up ⬆️
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.
Alyssa Rosenzweig. Not Resenzweig. It means Twig of Roses. Here’s her website: https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/
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 ooensource 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.
Allegedly. There was no evidence either way, and ultimately it doesn’t matter anyway.
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.
And here I am unable to ssh/putty/connect to my banana pi m5 so I can wipe lineageos off the emmc module. (Legit happy for her success!!!)
And here I am unable to ssh/putty/connect to my banana pi m5 so I can wipe lineageos off the emmc module. (Legit happy for her success!!!)
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.
Valve should hire her. With her help, they further improve SteamOS to have Nvidia drivers that are good.
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.
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
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 do, now!
Her live streams are something else
Where does she stream? Does she post old recordings? I’d love to try catching one.
What does she do on the livestreams?
Something else
She does 10 hour reverse engeneering sessions
Oh, I’m about to climax.
Oh shit!
So encouraging the bright young minds that are still being spawned. Amazing on her.
Omg,apple developers must feel so useless right now
When a big corp doesn’t support something, it’s by design. The engineers were told to not spend time on it.
There’s some really fucking talented people working in these big companies, but they don’t have freedom to make such decisions
Indeed,that’s why I said they must feel useless
Nah, they feel paid. If they wanted to do this work they could.
It’s great that open source software has amazing people like this.
