Very in depth review of the mess of a Matrix home server vide coded at Cloudflare... all the way to the blog announcing it. Unsurprisingly this didn't go well and they had to cover their tracks several times. The response from the Matrix foundation is a bit underwhelming, it's one thing to be welcoming, it's another to turn a blind eye to such obvious failures. This doesn't reflect well on both Cloudflare and the Matrix Foundation I'm afraid.
Very interesting stuff. This doesn't give a very cheerful picture of the current state though. Can a XMPP revival be in the cards? That would be an interesting outcome.
It's indeed difficult to separate FUD from the real community issues around Matrix right now. We'll have to keep an eye on how things evolve.
I felt that a bit the past couple of years when looking how the ecosystem evolved. The situation seems concerning to me.
This is definitely getting there in terms of performance and usability. The mobile clients seem mature enough, just need the desktop clients to catch up before this becomes really something I'd feel confident enough to recommend and push for.
Definitely a big announcement for Matrix. Could it be the beginning of going mainstream? I suspect it'll be now or never. I'm slightly concerned about the desktop support being apparently ignored, the UX there is far from great still.
The ordering used for matrix multiplications definitely matters.
Indeed, graphs are peculiar beasts. When dealing with graph related problems there are so many choices to make that it's hard or impossible to come up with a generic solution.
Interesting exploration of what could be done in a 3D engine using plane-based geometric algebra (PGA). This brings in nice properties that matrices don't have. And the performance impact is apparently not as bad as one could have suspected. I definitely look more into it.
Interesting move in the Matrix space. It's nice to see them go for a dual license business model involving AGPLv3. I'm a bit more concerned about the CLA though. Let's hope they setup something equivalent to the KDE-FreeQt Foundatio going through the Matrix Foundation. Otherwise, AFAICT, there's no safeguard against some nefarious relicensing years down the line.
Good introduction and advocacy for transform matrices. I often see people struggling with them but they're definitely worth mastering.
Lots of progress, they're finally delivering on past announcements at FOSDEM it seems. Let's hope the spec effort catches up though.
Clearly a list of concerns to keep an eye on for wider Matrix adoption. Clearly some basics are not covered still.
Useful list of gotchas if you need to dabble in linear algebra. You gotta love those floats.
Not very scientific but gives a rough idea of which services are heavy or not in the fediverse. Matrix seems to be still dismal in that regard... I wonder if we'll see a revival of XMPP, that'd be very funny.