Depressingly plausible scenario. Software needs to become a licensed engineering field with professional liability or something soon!

I would think an Astrophotographer needs to know which distant objects in the night sky are going to be illuminated and/or washed out when, so maybe that’s what it’s referring to? I.e. the joke is not that he knows where the sun is pointing on Earth, but that he knows where in the observable galaxy the light will be best for his needs?

Local Privilege Escalation - i.e. someone who is already a non-admin user (whether through other hacks or normally) on your computer getting admin privileges.

My understanding is that they’re withholding part of their source code (which is forbidden by AGPLv3 as described in the article) so that they can keep lock people with their devices into their cloud services (and of course corresponding subscription fees, privacy nightmares, etc.), rather than having the printers able to receive files and print them themselves.

Does the livestock figure include the water being used to grow their feed? Probably not because of course there’s no guarantee that their feed is Texas sourced. But there are just SO many examples of already too dry places having astronomical amounts of water given (read: stolen legally) to farm stupidly water intensive crops that are only good for feeding livestock like alfalfa.