Comment by iurbwdj

11 hours ago

It involved large parts of the Rust community, and the famous Rust developer Hector Martin (with an alter ego of Asahi Lina, a female vtuber, which he appears irrationally embarrassed about), harassing others.

Even Linus Torvalds called out Hector Martin.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292

> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 01:19, Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:

> > If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.

> How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.

> You think you know better. But the current process works.

> It has problems, but problems are a fact of life. There is no perfect.

> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.

> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics.

> Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no than\k you.

> Linus

https://archive.md/uLiWX

https://archive.md/rESxe

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CursedSilicon  6 hours ago

Is there any evidence "Asahi Lina" is Hector?

  • glenstein  6 hours ago

    Thank you for asking this. It was presented matter of fact and I would not have appreciated that it was something less than settled. The best I can find from googling was rumors and speculation (insert comment in reply with more rumors and speculation). I also don't necessarily think it means someone is a Bad Guy if true. I want people to be able to have anonymous alter egos online if that's what they want and they're not doing any harm.

  • amiga386  1 hour ago

    There is. You can easily find by googling "hector martin" "asahi lina" and you will soon find a pile of obsessively archived evidence.

    My view, now that Hector has resigned from the LKML both as himself and as Lina, is there is no problem any more. If Hector wants to project a persona, or decide his identity is the persona, or maybe multiple personas, that is fine on social media. People do that. So long as he's not sockpuppeting Linux kernel maintenance, it's fine.