It always fascinates me how people can achieve such things, and acquire knowledge to do so in the first place. Meanwhile, last night I spent 1h troubleshooting jellyfin because my kid clicked a few things in a menu by mistake when I was away.
Anyone who uses Jellyfin occasionally does some troubleshooting, don’t sell yourself short
Thank you Alyssa
Transphobes can fuck right off. The fact that a SINGLE person contributed this much says quite a lot about their own abilities, and whether they are trans or a woman is irrelevant.
lol her being trans or not didn’t even cross my mind
a woman is a woman, it’s as simple as that
And a talented engineer is a talented engineer! Pulling that off at 20 is mad, when I was 20 I didn’t have as much skill in my little toenail. Massive respect for her.
#tautology #blessed
They are trans?
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Did she just do this in her spare time or was this part of her job? It’s interesting just how people are able to accomplish this sort of things
She’s the GOAT. I’ve known about her since 2024 LibrePlanet. Apple Inc. can take the L.
Damn, that’s impressive. I wonder if this will open new avenues for the M1 iPads.
Sounds like modern day halt and catch fire. Didn’t know this is how Asahi was getting developed
Team Cameron & Donna
She’s amazing. Also fascinating life story, came out as transgender at 10, was raised Jewish but she is now a Quaker
raised Jewish but she is now a Quaker
Trading one religious tradition for another.
That’s a lateral move at best.
To be fair Quakers are like, the best people of pretty much any western organized religion
No, she plays Quake now… damn, now I have to look up the hat Quaker is
like the oats guy?
Fun fact: Quaker Oats has no relation to Quakers at all.
but they’re both bland and tasteless and disappointed in my life choices after seeing each other.
Oh, i followed and admired her work since they first got the m1 to boot like back a few years.
First time seeing her face
Reverse-engineering the M1 GPU with zero public docs is insane. Huge respect for managing to get an open-source driver working on Linux from scratch.
Love that she did it, although I’m surprised they didn’t sue her for contempt of business model (i.e. Some copyright BS)
If they were smart they would hire her
She was hired as a contractor by Valve to work on Linux graphics driver related stuff. Valve knows who the experts are. And yes her work is amazing.
That’s good to hear. Too many clever people get slapped down by litigious assholes.
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!
Please. Tell me. I tried AeroSpace and was so sad
Somebody let me use Sway at work! I promise it’ll make me faster!
They don’t lock down macOS but it still has an App Store where Apple makes 30% on sales
Locked down is relative, while I use both I find the OS gets in my way a lot more on macOS than Linux.
They bock it down pretty good. Can’t remove apple apps like apple TV.
I’ve always wondered how the fuck people do that? Absolute wizards.
Insane levels of dedication. And probably autism
Probably autism, so you know it’s good.
Insane levels of medication. And probably flautism (fixed it for you)
Oh no, my opinion is that medication for those of us with the “dig-in 'tisms” like this actually impedes our hyper focus performance.
To be fair it’s not just your opinion, also one of doctors
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.
If you can’t get the Arduino lights to blink at this point I can only applaud your persistence
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.
yeah I remember not being able to get my voltron lion to run in basic when I was in junior high.
And imagine doing it without expecting a cent!
Good on a resume.
That’s for sure
It’s the challenge of it though.
‘Just for the lulz’.
thaaaaat’s the shit, when it finally cracks and you laser focus on implementing your solution. better than drugs.
The high of cracking an intractable problem (pre-AI) was just unreal. I’d struggle to sleep, awaiting the morning so I could get back at it.
Nothing groundbreaking but writing my own Huffman compressor in C and seeing the whole thing work knowing where nearly all the real physical bits were going, was seriously satisfying. Recommended exercise ☺️
You mean you can’t just get Apple’s driver to work on Linux by turning it off and on again enough times?
or even by recompiling the kernel when apples driver is not part of it.
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!
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.
What a wholesome comment
It all adds up ⬆️
I used a toothpick to get some apple shell unstuck from my gum.
… by yourself !?
Impossible, that’s what we have fish for.
I’m 30 and I wiped my own ass. So I’m feeling pretty accomplished.
You must be male
Any other female crusters? #LetItCrustQueens
The bar is subterranean
I sure do love when self-deprecation is used as fuel in gender wars.
Would.
Sometimes I think I’m smart then I hear stories like this and I’m humbled.
She is a hero and a legend. It just makes me think, it’s so sad that we live in a world where the most altruistic, talented, and capable people make less than those that are the best at taking advantage of the system and others for their own greed.
She’s a contract worker for Valve. I’m sure she’s doing more than okay.
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.
Usename checks out
That’s not a wish, that’s prophecy.
