This is Alyssa Resenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver.

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In case you don’t know, she’s also trans. If you think that isn’t important, here’s a quote from her in the run-up to the 2014 election:

  “We’re not asking for much. We don’t want special treatment. We just want respect. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Right now I want legislators to get the fuck out of our doctors’ office.

  I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans. If all you care about is Linux, resist the attacks on trans people.

  If you have any decency, fight back.

  It’s your choice.”

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  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for sharing this. She’s awesome.

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  • atomo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    💚

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• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  She also did this while she was still a full time undergraduate university student. Normally you’d expect someone with more experience to be doing this kind of low level hardware hacking, but she did all this while still young, before even graduating from university.

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• Freeposity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Please do this with the Nvidia chips too! Running Linux on this old Macbook pro is great but I can’t turn the brightness down with the generic driver.

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Part of why it happened for Apple’s chips is that there weren’t any Linux-compatible GPU drivers. It’s easier to justify investing lots of time and effort into something like this if it makes hardware start working than if all it does is mean you’re not using a proprietary driver and in the medium term likely have worse performance.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The other thing is that Apple chips use a modified PowerVR architecture, and not some proprietary architecture.

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  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The open-source NVK driver in Mesa has gotten quite a lot of attention over the past couple years, unfortunately it will probably never be competitive with the proprietary driver on older hardware (Pascal (10xx series) and older) because those GPUs require a proprietary firmware blob in order to increase the GPU clock speeds.

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• Novocirab@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Rosenzweig

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  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for sharing these links. I’m so impressed by her.

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• 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This belongs in shitposts, not here.

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  • BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    why

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I (erroneously) though the glasses were missing.

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  • jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You belong in shitposts.

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