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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by masklinn »

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #70
wincy wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s like a full time filter where the only online identity someone presents is as an anime girl. I think it was popularized by a company called HoloLive that has Japanese girls do this as a full time job? It’s a VERY niche culture thing. Check out the Asahi Lina channel to see what I mean. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LonzMviFCNs

Surprisingly it is not that niche anymore - for example, the hololive subreddit has 800,000 subscribers which is about half of the hockey subreddit.

Do all subscribers to team subreddits follow the main sub as well though? Because I assume fans follow "their" teams' subreddit, and there's several in the 100k range.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by kitsunesoba »

squarefoot wrote: post #12
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #6

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i can only assume the poster meant apple should add linux drivers of M1/m2 to mainline linux kernel

I'm not sure Apple would want users to run anything but Apple operating systems on their hardware, and the other way around (fighting against hackintoshes back in the day). I hope to be proven wrong though, as their hardware is really interesting.

> (fighting against hackintoshes back in the day)

Apple doesn't really care about individual hackintoshers. Some of their devs have griped about the uselessness of stack traces and logs coming in from hackintoshed machines (bogus errors produced by slight hardware mismatches, drivers developed by amateur community members filling logs with garbage, etc) but they've never gone after anybody who was hackintoshing for personal use. There's even been fairly big YouTubers who've done it without issue, and back when Macs were Intel only and had abysmal thermals/performance a surprising number of Mac/iOS devs were using hackintoshes as their primary dev machines that they submitted to the App Store with.

Where they draw the line is selling hackintoshed machines or any of the tools to facilitate the process. Eliminate financial gain from the equation and you'll probably be fine.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by Retric »

ramraj07 wrote: post #71
helf wrote: post #57

The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).

Every cell in your body is running a full blown OS fully capable of doing things that each individual cell has no need for. It sounds like this is a perfectly natural way to go about things.

Mature mammalian red blood cells ditch their DNA, which is one reason they don’t live very long.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by est31 »

dist1ll wrote: post #61
helf wrote: post #57

The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).

There's this great USENIX talk by Timothy Roscoe [1], which is part of the Enzian Team at ETH Zürich. It's about the dominant unholistic approach to modern operating system design, which is reflected in the vast number of independent, proprietary, under-documented RTOSes running in tandem on a single system, and eventually leading to uninspiring and lackluster OS research (e.g. Linux monoculture). I'm guessing that h…

I think making it harder to build an OS by increasing its scope is not going to help people to build Linux alternatives.

As for the components, at least their interfaces are standardized. You can remove memory sticks by manufacturer A and replace them with memory sticks from manufacturer B without problem. Same goes for SATA SSDs or mice or keyboards.

Note that I'm all in favour of creating OSS firmware for devices, that's amazing. But one should not destroy the fundamental boundary between the OS and the firmware that runs the hardware.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by cjsawyer »

philistine wrote: post #59
segmondy wrote: post #54

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Which is what Zuck is trying to get us all into with the Meta, but the world is not ready yet.

Don't forget to dissociate the concept of virtual worlds which already exist and are quite popular (MMOs etc.), and the idea of a virtual world owned and imagined by Zuckerberg which has been a terrible failure so far.

The opinions around facebook’s metaverse are hilarious when things like Second Life, WoW, EVE, VR Chat, and even Roblox have been so massively popular yet unrecognized for what they are.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by masklinn »

mlindner wrote: post #79
masklinn wrote: post #19

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> Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym? Yes > Is Asahi Linux named after her? Other way around, it’s a pseudonym created to work on the project, IIRC Lina got involved early-mid 2022 while Hector Martin started the project in late 2020 / early 2021.

Why does she have so much clout when the latter has been working on this for much longer? I feel like there's some fanboyism happening here. This person basically just joined the project.

They "just joined the project" and reverse engineered and developed the kernel drivers from relatively little prior work, in just a few months.

From afar they also seem to have a pretty ebullient and infectious personality and to stream a lot (we're talking 10h streams every few days: https://www.youtube.com/@AsahiLina/streams) which is impressive work and dedication.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by noveltyaccount »

psychphysic wrote: post #18

What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.

The quantity of exclamation points lol. I assume I'm just too old to get it...I'm okay with that, and I'm damn impressed with the results, so more power to Lina, whatever works for her.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by [deleted] »

embedded3 wrote: post #29
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #22

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> Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person? Man... if I was a conspiracy theorist who believed Apple was genuinely evil, what if Asahi Lina is an Apple employee? ;)

Apple has pushed OS updates to help the Asahi team, though they did not publicize this, of course.

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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by masklinn »

Mistletoe wrote: post #51
dimator wrote: post #28

watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.

I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me. >In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome" or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS. from Johnny Mnemonic What can we do to make it more utopian?

> I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me.

Is it?

It's basically forums & avatars brought in the medium of audio and video communication.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by psychphysic »

masklinn wrote: post #80
psychphysic wrote: post #38

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One of those threads where you comment and more questions are raised that feel almost irrelevant. From what I have gleaned, vTuber is a virtual YouTuber. The streams use an anime model a s behaviour. So we've no idea who it is. And for some reason I feel creeped out now. There is something perturbing about the saccharin persona coupled with the pseudonym. Like Pennywise (It) vibes?

> From what I have gleaned, vTuber is a virtual YouTuber. The streams use an anime model a s behaviour. Yes, basically instead of streaming as themselves vTubers stream as a persona, usually with an anime-style virtual avatar. > And for some reason I feel creeped out now. There is something perturbing about the saccharin persona coupled with the pseudonym. I've not found a vTuber I enjoyed (but the main vTuber commun…

> However how is "Asahi Lina" and an animated cartoon avatar creepier than psychphysic and a random picture or manga snip on a forum 15 or 20 years ago?

That's a really good question and I only have a cop-out answer.

I'm not the type to get the creeps.

But the immediate thought I had and commented else where was of Pennywise.

Which is really quite alarming!

I think the core was that Asahi in my mind is quite infantilised and the realisation that the person behind the persona is quite likely to be adult man.

Nothing particularly predatory here, but there is still a feeling of a false sense of security.

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