Its so strange seeing the comments on this post. The lady pretty much did the premise of Halt and Catch fire, only with a modern chip, and made the work publicly available. Its a huge accomplishment and a mountain of work and people are hyper analyzing her gender/sex/religion/means, along with a lot of “well aksully” and clutchmypeRlsapplewillgettizzy talk. Wow.
This sounds a lot like the behavior that a lot of folks were running away from on reddit.
<shouting at sky>Remember when a foss would drop and folks would talk about the accomplishment, tech, or potential uses of it? And it’s damaging. There are probably a dozen budding and potential programmers you just killed the dreams of, because you just negged any positive feedback or constructive criticism. I can imagine several people reading this with the scratchcode of next os gathering dust on a usb because of this general vibe. Back in the day, there was negging and bad spirits, but there was also a community of active support. And guess what- I sucked. But I had the good fortune to latch onto a few mentors who said, yep, but its okay, and not a bad thing. Twenty years on, I have a coding based job and lifestyle, and guess what, still suck. But so do you, and anyone else in the field. Its not about “getting gud”, but getting better, and supporting others in that journey. And this support is more than ever important than ever in this new hyper-corporatized, angular-ized, gpt-ified environment. </>
If you are feeling empty in this career, studies or hobby, find those mentors. And if you can’t find one, be the person that is, no matter how much you “suck”. And, if the programming.dev community can’t have a good constructive conversation about one of the most epic code compiles by a single person in recent history, can you kindly point me to the thread that is a positive environment?
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.
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.
Of you look at all of the work behind Asahi, it’s incredible. I’m so grateful for heroes like Alyssa who are saving millions of computers from landfills when Apple no longer supports them
Alyssa Rosenzweig. Not Resenzweig. It means Twig of Roses. Here’s her website: https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/
Name is misspelled in the title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Rosenzweig.
Also, wow, impressive.Makes we want to buy a second-hand Apple device just to try it out.
I ran it on my M1 mini for several months a year or so back. At that stage it was probably 90% of what I needed it to be, which was bloody impressive. After I no longer needed it for work, I tried using it as my Home Assistant server, but with only 8gb RAM, ultimately it ended up being far more efficient to run HA in a virtual machine in macOS.
But yeah, if you can pick up an M1 for a good price, give it a go. It’s good fun.
m2 is also well-supported
True. I played about with it on my M2 Air for a bit. But I need my Air to be rock solid because it’s how I do my radio show.
She’s amazing. Also fascinating life story, came out as transgender at 10, was raised Jewish but she is now a Quaker
Why is she a Quacker?
Dunno, ask her
