then makes the non Muslim women already living there a target by male Muslim fanatics.

This is complete non-sense. The only women really affected by this are second generation immigrant ones that grew up in western society but whom their families do not want to drop the traditional values they brought with them.

But that assumes nothing else runs on the VPS, no? (And also that resource sharing on the VPS provider side is irrelevant)

No, sadly no active fork of Alexandrite that I could find.

We found a nice fork of the mymlm (old.) frontend though.

Naja, auch ohne die ActivityPub C2S API ist das ja schon im Grunde der Fall, nur halt mit Reimplementationen der Mastodon C2S API. GoToSocial z.B läuft problemlos auf einem RasberryPi 3/4/5 und kann mit quasi sämtlichen Mastodon apps als Backend genutzt werden.

Die offizielle ActivityPub Spezifikationen enthalten auch eine rudimentäre C2S API, aber diese wurde nicht von Mastodon implementiert.

I mean, aside from the fact that you can buy a small second-hand car for the asking price, why not 🤷

The point of Open-Source is to allow that. This is what differentiates Open-Source from Free Software and why people invented the term and founded the organisation behind it.

The Free Software side of things did improve on licensing with the AGPL.

How much work do you think would it be to also create a FOSS backend, maybe utilizing an existing xmpp server for federation?

Where do tractors mainly transport people (or cargo)?

A boat is clearly closer to your definition of a car than a tractor.

By that definition a tractor isn’t a car.

You’re calling me a clown when you don’t even know what a car is?? 🤡

You are making up arbitrary definitions to suit your silly argument. A boat is a form of personalized transport with an ICE engine, a steering wheel and seats, even a windshield etc. so it is clearly a “car” 🤡

I think this mostly benefits the somewhat later Kaveri etc. APUs that have a southern islands iGPU. Quite a few thin clients and laptops used those and they are still capable machines today for most non-gaming tasks.

And boats are a variety of car if they have an ICE, right? 🤡

You are also arguing in bad faith, because cars are not the same as internal combustion engines. You might be able to argue correctly that tractors replaced farm animals for productive use, but tractors are not cars.

The point is that horses got replaced by trains, trams and bicycles for most people long before cars became widely used.

Yeah, this was a nice surprise for the old thin client I use as an GUI access terminal for some servers. Not exactly a gaming machine, but some desktop tasks also benefit.

I think much of the critique is never the less justified, but out of interest, how much do you think it has to do with the integration on Teams with Office365, or put differently, if the EC would stop using Office365, would the percieved advantage of Teams disappear?

It’s not that hard, but Matrix is driven by bad ideas (decentralized rooms that function similar to a blockchain, basically mandatory e2ee compatible with large public chats where it makes no sense, etc) and those actively harm it being used as a chat program and bind developer resources.

Imagine someone could have predicted this inevitable outcome and could have invested that money into reneweable local energy sources /s

Overall I agree, but it is missing and important aspect: maintainability.

This is maybe the most insidious part of LLM use to write code. Since LLMs have no real understanding of the structure of the project they will duplicate functions and generally make a mess that very quickly becomes unmaintainable by humans. The only “solution” LLM users have for that is perpetually rewriting large swaths of the codebase introducing new bugs, removing features and so on.

Since open-source software is usually especially long lived and maintained by a changing group of people, this results in code bases that are like asbestos that no one wants to even touch.