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To use anonymity technologies passively is easy. But socially and psychologically? Nobody warned me of the mental toll it would take to have to separate myself from, well, myself. Technically, I am well-versed in anonymity software, as an avid user of Tor, GPG, and OTR. I was no longer able to handle the cognitive load of a second persona. Yet here I am, six months later, proclaiming it for all to hear: I am Cafe Beverage. And at least at first, I was surgically careful to ensure that an outsider could not correlate my two identities. If the project were to come into jeopardy, no harm would come to me. Thus, I, Alyssa Rosenzweig, student, writer, programmer, and artist, did not author the work.Ĭafe Beverage did. This could be a problem for me: depending on my life aspirations and my personal resilience, to work on this GPU under my real name could pose a threat to me as well. His real person was exposed to damage as a result of Tamil. By contrast, libv worked under his real name, so when there was alleged retaliation, they knew exactly who to target. My other change was to adopt a pseudonym. Retroactive attempts to censor me would inevitably fail thanks to the Streisand effect.

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Thankfully, the source code remains online, downloaded by many others, spread out between several laptops and servers hosted in multiple countries. For starters, to avoid the risk that a future me would withhold the source code, I published everything from the beginning, immediately as it was written. My work with the GPU would proceed, only carefully enough to avoid his own fate. Without that source code, Tamil could not enable free graphics acceleration on my own laptop.

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To this day, the source code for Tamil remains only on the hard drive of libv, invisible to the rest of the free software community. His project, Tamil, reverse engineered enough of the command stream 2 to display a textured cube at FOSDEM.īut the project ceased there due to the pushback he never released his work. Luc Verhaegan, better known by his handle libv, precedes me. I purchased a laptop 1 with this chipset, and thus my work began. Why? Libreboot supports the Rockchip RK3288 chipset, containing a Mali T760 GPU that is unusable without proprietary software.

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My goal was to write a free software driver for Midgard GPUs, better known as the Mali T series produced by ARM. Over the summer I founded the chai project ( proof). So secret that I’ll write it on my blog under my real legal name, for all the world to see and criticise: So secret that this pseudonym only connected to the Internet through Tor, using the Tor Browser Bundle and Tor Messenger to maintain resilience against even the most subtle of identity leaks. So secret that it could only be told to the world under a pseudonym – an alter ego – except to the closest of friends on a “need to know” basis. I have a secret, so secret that it cannot be whispered without multiple layers of encryption. Rosenzweig – My Name is Cafe Beverage My Name is Cafe Beverage