3abas

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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Saudi monarchy hates Islam and is shackled by it. Saudi Arabia had been on a "liberalization" plan under MBS, and it'll be western soon enough.

They're following UAE's doorsteps, and they're even worse. You can now buy alcohol in public in UAE. You need a license (pay money and don't be Muslim) or be a tourist, but it's otherwise unrestricted. You can already wear almost nothing and you can literally be a Zionist who calls Muslims snakes and terrorist and you'll be welcomed on a red carpet.

Saudi wants that, they just don't have control tight enough over their population to get away with that yet.

So yes, they will not enforce Sharia on EA games, they're hoping one day they don't have to do any "moral' restrictions on content domestically. As long as it brings in money.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't call WSL service, Linux environment integrated into Windows is more accurate. With WSL 2, Linux actually runs using a lightweight virtual machine with a real Linux kernel, while still being tightly integrated with Windows. It's a proper Ubuntu (or whatever you want really) installation that you can run a production server off of.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not really. Microsoft did WSL to keep Linux users from leaving, and to gain back Windows server share. Both worked, but keeping me in Windows by allowing me to use Linux means I'm still using, expanding my usage, and becoming more dependent on Linux.

It's exposing Windows devs to Linux, and getting people using it. Every WSL installation of Ubuntu is an installation that likely would never have been done otherwise.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They make a very poor job of highlighting something so important in a dense page detailing how to do what they recommend you don't.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They don't recommend against it... It's a detailed guideline on doing it successfully.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not what they're saying. They're saying llms are getting so good at revealing vulnerabilities that they have to put focus and effort on finding and fixing them before external malicious actors do.

Yeah it's faster to find a bug than to refactor a whole codebase to fix it, they're still using llms to speed up fixing the bugs. If you believe them, anyway.

I do. Their software stacks were so shit and bloated and had many owners with different visions and understanding of what code does what and why and they rely on being closed source to survive penetration, I do believe llms are finding vulnerabilities left and right, and focused refactoring to address legacy human slop can take time, even for a super competent llm that does it correctly in one shot.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Really old software had feature long time ago, new software has it now. Somebody 17 years from now is going to respond to post about multiple cursor support in nowaydudeland with "Wayland got had this in 2026"

And another person will respond "but we're not talking about Wayland..."

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

.net (core) is a mature framework and collection of great languages that work really well, perform really well, and is truly cross platform and open source. It's the best thing Microsoft offers.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The xbone pitch was amazing for gamers who watched tv, it just never worked well out of the box. To actually watch live tv, you had to buy an additional dongle and an antenna, and then after spending all that on setting up your media center, you had to buy the remote separately.

And then the whole experience wasn't as smooth as it should have been, and cable integration was very buggy in my experience.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Assuming these customers are the reason for the price hikes, their backing out is the demand loss needed to bring prices back down.