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.

To add two numbers, for example, it constructs the midpoint between them, then doubles the distance from the origin.

It’s basically a self-defined system of arithmetic, with no actual numbers. e.g. rather than 1 + 2 = 3, you have [radius of unit circle A] + [radius of 2 unit circle B] = [length of 3 unit line C]. I’ll confess I don’t totally understand how you can extend that to the point that it can correctly implement RSA, but I believe it can be done based on other achievements with unquantified geometry I’ve witnessed in the past.

For example, this excellent video about constructing flags using only the shape drawing tools of PowerPoint without ever applying external measurements to the shapes.