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That's cool. Was it made with the engine of Quake 3?


STK uses its own fork of Irrlicht Engine.


Nope, Irrlicht

> which took even longer than the port from PLIB (anyone remember that?) to Irrlicht in 2010


I played it when it was PLIB based. It is amazing how how it looks now compared to how it looked back then.


>2) Looking at the circumstances, it seems far more likely that this was an action by ex-exployees with commercial motives, rather than government-sponsored spying.

Which doesn't surprise me, as that's practically ingrained in the Chinese culture, and is another factor to take into account when hiring Chinese people.


>and is another factor to take into account when hiring Chinese people.

I understand what you mean, but it's literally illegal to take any factor into account when hiring Chinese people (literal racism). It's literally a protected status.

Is there some other way to interview and test whether someone will steal your code and send it to China, other than the fact that they're Chinese?

If you can come up with an alternative test you give everyone, it's okay. Using nationality as a shortcut is not OK.


If you have third-party cookies disabled it just crashes. I understand they are necessary to make this work but an error message should be shown.


Ohhh no! That is not good enough, I'm sorry :(

I will find the root cause asap and fix this issue!

If you wish, you can report the issue here: https://www.darwinmail.app/feedback.php


Sorry, I am not opening a trello account to report bugs. I am debugging your app for free, just asking not to have so sign yet another one-sided term of service doc. I also have problems with content security policy, see below:

Content Security Policy: Ignoring “http:” within script-src: ‘strict-dynamic’ specified Content Security Policy: The page’s settings observed the loading of a resource at inline (“script-src”). A CSP report is being sent. Source: try{(function overrideDefaultMethods(r, g, b, a, scriptId, storedObjectPrefix) { var scriptNode = document.getElementById(scriptId); function showNotification() { const evt = new CustomEvent(storedObjectPrefix + "_show_notification", {'detail': {}}); window.dispatchEvent(evt); }


For the same reason psychologists have shrugged off the fact that most papers cannot be replicated.


Quantum mechanical experiments get replicated time and time again. There is nothing even resembling the reproducibility crisis in quantum mechanics. The issue discussed in the article is only about interpreting why the results always come out exactly like we predict, not any issues with the results or reporting of them.


...or a greasemonkey script.

I'm definitely not installing an extension just for this.


A set of greasemonkey scripts could work but my intended audience is more casual than greasemonkey users. Having a curated set of scripts bundled into its own extension makes the marketing story and installation flow easier.

I also think the security will be better on my extension. You have to give greasemonkey edit permissions for all websites whereas I have a PR in the works where you only grant permission to the sites you want to disengage from. Even now it only asks for permissions to the subset of sites it modifies. Due to the nature of how web extension manifest permissioning works, greasemonkey can't offer this. If you look at their permission model it says "This add-on can: Access your data for all websites". IMO that's way more dangerous than your paranoia about a new extension with tight permissions.


...or a modified hosts file.


But do the ÖVP actually do that? I'm Spanish and I voted for a "conservative" government this last election, where they promised to do, well, stuff I expected from a conservative party, and they didn't do shit. That's why I call them "centrist". They say they are conservatives, but they don't conserve anything.


I only enumerated things they put into law out they proposed or supported from the start.

The things the FPOe did was getting rid of the smoking ban, raising the speed limits to 140, renaming the immigration centers to “departure centers”, proposals to cut the funding of the public broadcaster.

Together they converted the country in record time into a dystopian place. Even putting childhood education back into former times by reintroducing marks for primary schoolers and minimum requirements that can cause children under 10 to have to repeat a class.

They are now both also starting to talk about rolling back abortion rights.


Well, the conservatives and the right are not going to implement left politics. Austria was certainly NOT converted into a "dystopian place".

Like it or not: Some time ago, a left-leaning newspaper (Standard) wrote that the current government has the best polls recorded so far.


> Well, the conservatives and the right are not going to implement left politics. Austria was certainly NOT converted into a "dystopian place".

A country with that much power given to the government with so little oversight, no transparency is a problem. Austria is a country of immigration and the rules in place for immigrants are awful (from both access to citizenship and rights). What is currently being done has the chance to erode the social fabric more than any other government did before.

> Like it or not: Some time ago, a left-leaning newspaper (Standard) wrote that the current government has the best polls recorded so far.

Obviously I don't like it, and it worries me a lot. I'm not sure any if this is the country I want my children to grow up in.


Yeah, when I voted for the conservatives here I thought they would roll back abortion rights but they didn't, I thought they would fix the immigration madness but they didn't, and that's why I and many other people are voting far right next election: the conservative party has simply failed to be conservative, they just became centrists to attract more votes, and I sure hope it will backfire.

And that's why these laws are popping up all over Europe: they want to maintain control, they are scared of new parties.


What specifically would you like them to conserve? I find conservatism confusing because the specific base state that apparently needs to be conserved differs from person to person. Do you want to go back to feudalism? Do you want to go back to the bronze age? Or do you just want to go back to when the literacy rate was below 50%? Conservatism needs to be specific in its goals otherwise it only represents a desire for a purely unchanging society.


I think the wrong words were chosen by the parent. For many decades politics in Europe were dominated by traditional globalist governments, which I would describe as "centrist". For many people those governments are failing and voters are moving to the left and the right, depending on the country of course.

Centrist governments are trying to use "hate speech" laws as a way of curbing their loss of control of the media; before they could control the newspapers and the telly and therefore they could control dialogue, now with social networks that's not that easy. We are seeing that with some stories, such as rapes in Sweden and all of that. They could simply tell their friends in TV networks not to talk about it. Problem solved. That doesn't work anymore. So they need the law.

In Germany and Austria for example you need to put your real name and address in a visible part of your website known as the Impressum. What's a better way to make sure you keep your opinions under control and your head low?


those governments are failing and voters are moving to the left and the right, depending on the country of course.

I think it's pretty universal across Europe that people are moving more to the extremes. But that doesn't make the original parties suddenly "centrist" -- they're just status-quo, "old school".

Centrist governments are trying to use "hate speech" laws as a way of curbing their loss of control of the media

I'm sorry, but this just sounds like populist propaganda. There hasn't been government control of the media like you suggest; instead, the media used to be civil. The current "popular" channels do away with civility, and any voice critical of that tone is immediately discarded by playing the victim, like you are doing here.

The establishment, still representing the civil masses, is perfectly within scope to try and curb uncivility. Whether their methods are effective is up for debate, but the goal isn't -- we all know what happened last time Europe went uncivil (80 million premature deaths).


As if there is no third option other than a) a well fed huge centrist government + civil bland state TV or b) dictatorship.

How about Thatcher/Friedman/Chicago school/libertarian politics?

Has never been tried anywhere.


Thatcher politics most definitely has been tried, by the UK when Thatcher was PM.


As others have pointed out, the austrian government is populist right/far-right. This is not a law by centrist parties, but by right-wing authoritarian.


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