I mean I have decades of doing all sorts of IT work and this is way beyond my level. Absolutely amazing.

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!

I used a toothpick to get some apple shell unstuck from my gum.

I'm 30 and I wiped my own ass. So I'm feeling pretty accomplished.

I applaud them for their thankless work. I hate that it's necessary in the first place.

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.

saving millions of computers from landfills when Apple no longer supports them

Kindof except that their build quality tanked during the late Intel era and the motherboards will die a lot sooner now

https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/...

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.

She's a contract worker for Valve. I'm sure she's doing more than okay.

Lina rebranded as Hoshino Lina and is working on an open source implementation of Live2D now.

https://bsky.app/...

opensource community can be an evil pit of haters

More like worthless shits on Kiwi Farms

As a regular Asahi user (m2pro mbp), I literally felt the project slowing down when they quit.

Me too, there's still great work being done on the project but the pace hasn't been the same since

Wasn't Asahi Lina alter ego of marcan? Or am I misremembering things

Thank you. This is the sort of news I need in my day.

Pretty flipping sweet if you asked me.

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.

They are trans?

Looks like a dude, talks like a dude, it is a dude.

So much so, so naturally so, that you brought it up so, makes me wonder about what strife witnessed.

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 ;) )

♥️🌹

What does she do on the livestreams?

Where does she stream? Does she post old recordings? I'd love to try catching one.

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?

The only reason I'm not buying an M series macbook is because I thought there's no Linux support, have things changed? Is it all unofficial?

*acided.

Insane levels of dedication. And probably autism

like the oats guy?

raised Jewish but she is now a Quaker

Trading one religious tradition for another.

That's a lateral move at best.

Why is she a Quacker?

No need to diminish Olympic athletes. They worked very hard to get there. There are plenty of influences you can diminish instead.

One of us

So are we all.

lol I randomly searched for a page from collabora about how they reverse engineer GPU drivers (since I've seen that they've done that for other GPUs) and the very first page I went to was written by this person. Apparently this was a side project while she did fairly similar work on Mali GPUs at Collabora.

Anyways, here's what she said about the process:

Typically, for Linux or Android driver reverse-engineering, a small wrap library will be written to inject into a test application via LD_PRELOAD that hooks key system calls like ioctl and mmap in order to analyze user-kernel interactions. Once the “submit command buffer” call is issued, the library can dump all (mapped) shared memory for offline analysis...

it took some elbow grease to identify the three critical calls: memory allocation, command buffer creation, and command buffer submission...

With those obstacles cleared, we can finally get to the shader binaries, black boxes in themselves. However, the process from here on out is standard: start with the simplest fragment or compute shader possible, make a small change in the input source code, and compare the output binaries. Iterating on this process is tedious but will quickly reveal key structures, including opcode numbers.

From https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/... , there's a lot more details about the subsequent parts of the process in the next articles but they're harder to summarize

By my recollection she started from the open source Imagination Technologies GPU drivers. As the Apple GPU is definitely not derived from the GPU they used to license for the iPhone, she was able to use it for the initial register definitions, etc.

Nah, fuck nVidia

Lol! They did. 😁

Anyone who uses Jellyfin occasionally does some troubleshooting, don’t sell yourself short

The answer is: They like tinkering. This is sort of people who get dopamine rush when solving it like some sort of ulta complex puzzle.

If you mean Apple, it wouldn't really make sense for them to do that. Apple primarily generates income from hardware sales, so they wouldn't care if people run other software on the hardware they already bought.

Edited to say: this doesn't really apply for the iPhone/iPad as the application ecosystem is locked down. macOS isn't though so users will do whatever they want anyway. There are even tiling window managers for macOS!

If they were smart they would hire her

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

...without asking a dime. Just love for the game.

VLC springs to mind.

Team Cameron & Donna

Depending on what you want to do you need a lot of time, dedication, tools and probably money.

Some of the basics of reverse engineering:

• Learn to use a binary editor to inspect compiled binaries
• Learn to debug without symbols
• Learn to use a decompiler
• Learn to inspect the traffic between the device and the OS

It's kind of monumental and there's no real finish line for learning any of them.

ok

You're doing the hacker's job, son. Keep it up.

Reverse engineering is not (yet) illegal, but expect that to change after the midterms, if Trump and his buddies manage to win more seats.

Open

quite a few places! how about the changelogs in the regular Mesa release notifications sent on the mesa-announce@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list?

Apple has some legitimately impressive silicon these days.

The second Apple stops supporting it, having another OS to install will help people. Also, sometimes people spend time on weird shit like Pokemon or LEGO. At least this can be used by others.

Hardware. I'd love to have a mac, but can't stomach the OS

So if I spot her in public I can ask for an autograph.

Because we're visual creatures and usually if you say, "this is the..." you're usually visually showing the thing.

So why the disrespect ?

The website you're looking for is over here.

didn't accomplish much

wrote a reverse engineered GPU driver from scratch by herself

Also, the first NES emulator was called NESticle. I have a feeling it wasn't developed by a woman of color.

EDIT: My bad. NESticle was the first well-known emulator. The first emulator was released in 1990 by Haruhisa Udagawa, for a computer called the FM Towns that was only released in Japan. No points for diversity when you're in a country where you're the majority race.

Post your face, it's only fair.

Embarassing comment.

One of the most remarkable software engineers is shown for attribution

Some internet idiots: ”BuT loOk At HeR EyEs”

You...you do know you can like...represent the blinky lights as numbers right?

A fully blind programmer could contribute to graphics driver development just fine. They don't need to appreciate the picture rendition of the math problems they're solving, to solve them.

She looks like someone who doesn’t get her photo taken often and may in fact be uncomfortable with the process, like a lot of people are. I worked for three years at a school for the blind and visually impaired, and people who have visual limitations don’t look directly into the lens.

one of the co heads of this graphics lab whose maine claim to fame was 3d stuff could not see 3d.

What do you mean by out-of-focus look?

Edit: I don't fully understand your comment, but there are blind people who can program. So even if she was blind, it does not mean she couldn't reverse engineer the graphics drivers. Can you be more specific?

Tell me dear, what made you so sour towards the world?

Oh dear, some people got triggered. I was genuinely curious. My bad for speaking face to face with quite a few blind people over the years and recognizing a similarity.

What does that have to do with coding ability?

not trying to be an asshole, but

But you're being one

This comment reminds me of reddit.

Admiral Grace Hopper, Kathleen Booth, and Margaret E Hamilton of the top of my head.

Also don't try attributing trans womens' achievements to men please.

I'll show you two right here, I eagerly await to hear about why these examples don't fit your highly specific criteria that no one asked for.

not trying to be an asshole

For someone not trying you have succeeded spectacularly well at being an asshole

You're right. You're not merely trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

You've post 2 top level comments calling attention to the fact they are trans

not trying to be an asshole, but they're trans.

Naw. You are an asshole and trying to be.

show me a western woman who's done some shit like this lmao.

That's easy, there's one in the post you replied to.

Trans women are women, asshole.