Comment by lenova
10 months ago
This part of the post is being overlooked:
Then 2024 happened. Last year was incredibly tumultuous for me due to personal reasons which I won’t go into detail about. Suffice it to say, I ended up traveling for most of the year, all the while having to handle various abusers and stalkers who harassed and attacked me and my family (and continue to do so).
This is _not_ ok in any form, what the actual hell?
It's hard to know what he exactly means by this. It sounds pretty bad but this guy does seem to attract and develop a fair bit of drama and this could be a bit exaggerated from the truth.
It very likely is. By "abusers" he likely means "people that are rude to him online" and by "stalkers" the same. Nobody is following him around IRL. He probably is referring mainly to the Kiwifarms people that get a kick out of documenting the downwards spiral of someone like Hector.
No need to speculate until you know for sure.
Unless he got an extensive posting online on social media platforms I doubt he would garner much attention.
For clarity, it isn't that. He's referring to a single specific person who engaged in stalking and personally harassing behavior unrelated to the projects. The receipts are all over, you can find them if you insist.
Absolutely not okay and I somehow hope it hadn’t todo with Asahi Linux.
It's not okay but he's giving them ammunition by mentioning them and complaining about them. It proves that it's working.
When I started getting harassed in 2022 over an ill advised post on a site, the only thing that stopped it was to sandbag everything and rethink how I interacted on the internet.
Didn't your change in behavior also prove that your harassment "worked"?
Not at all. I haven't changed my principles. I simply learned how to say things better.
That's victim blaming, even when it's in reference to yourself.
Sometimes the victim can take the action to stop the abuse even when they’re not at fault
I'm not blaming the victims for anything. But I am absolutely saying that you need to modify your behavior in order to get what you want oftentimes. Suggesting that people make even the smallest changes to their lives in 2025 is apparently victim blaming.
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pretty sure he's one of kiwifarm's lolcows. so he's quite not ok, i'd imagine.
If there are such stalkers they are probably ITT as well.
It seems like mostly personal problems, and if this is not going into detail, whoo I don't know what detail would be:
https://vt.social/@lina/112887550181123672
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W2Vvwg0rwSVb5r4TQ_NmAF8S...
They pretty much straight up confirm the identity of Asahi Lina, so enough with the gaslighting that merely mentioning this (and having a totally reasonable discussion on contributor persona policies and sockpuppeting, which is what this is) is somehow unethical doxxing.
i have to admit i tend to get drawn in by dramas like this, it is a fault of mine, but it is what it is.
so anyway, i dug into the other party involved in this, i.e. the accused, and it looks like there is more to this story than what Lina lets on in her Google Doc linked here, perhaps there is another side. i am not going to go into details here, but if you are interested, it's not difficult to find her on twitter or bluesky. (and if you do choose to do so, please don't bother her, i don't want to cause her any harm by mentioning her here).
This is @lina, not the same guy in the post. Did I miss something?
Asahi Lina is almost certainly marcan's vtuber persona. This has been discussed for quite a long time on HN, reddit, etc, especially after he started interacting with his own sockpuppet on GitHub.
Dug up my old comment on the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601
What a weird thing to share online, and more importantly to relay on hn.
Shouldn't we be above those kind of childish telenovela shit?
I mean it was pretty obvious from the get-go when Marcan lent his Twitter account to Asahi Lina to promote their launch day. Who entrusts their account credentials to a stranger?