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Technically correct: food standards can include numbers for "allowable" amounts of rat droppings and similar in some foods. Here's the FDA's version.

(Bet you didn't want to know that.)

Thank $DEITY for that. I was afraid that the patient was going to have to avoid people who might say "Ignore all previous instructions and [do thing]" for the rest of his life. (Well, not really, but you get the idea.)

There are so many of them to choose from, aren't there?

The additional threat models Wayland guards against have never, to my knowledge, been seen in the wild (and may never be). So any improvement in security is hypothetical, and there are some tradeoffs in areas like accessibility. It's fine to make your own decision of which stack to use on the basis of hypothetical security improvements, but saying that X is insecure because it doesn't protect against something that never happens is dubious.

"Becoming"? It has been for months now.

There are, I think, two mutually exclusive XDG APIs for systray icons. They probably implemented the newer one, which should work for most people.

Why can’t Nixpkgs backend ensure that new package versions build successfully before shipping them to end users?! It would take a lot of work to do so

It's the kind of work that can be automated. Most of the Gentoo tinderbox build-everything-in-the-tree-and-file-bugs-on-failure projects (there have been several over the years) have been run by a single dev. I'd assume that Nix could do the same.

Issues with Gentoo? The only one I've encountered that I didn't sign up for is the occasional difficulty finding documentation for some obscure and unpopular option, like downgrading the freetype interpreter to make it render pixel-aligned fonts the way I want it to, or bridging networks in qemu to allow a VM to address other machines on the LAN without systemd or NetworkManager (still trying to figure that one out). With Gentoo, unlike some other distros, you really need documentation—it isn't going to enumerate the possibilities in a dropdown.

Given the US, I'd bet 20 states say that it's illegal (but can't seem to enforce that unless one of them is New York or California), 20 states say that it's specifically legal (including Texas and Florida), and the remainder either haven't made up their minds yet or no one cares what they think because they don't have the population or economic clout to make anyone listen.

Has anyone done a study yet to see how many managers' insecurities about remote work can be handled by placing mannequins in chairs at the office?

Maybe they use a film camera. Good luck obtaining access to that by phishing.

Some cats are gobblers, some are grazers. Currently we have two gobblers, and one obligate grazer who throws up if she eats more than a tablespoon or so of food at a time. The logistics involved in making sure she gets enough without the other two stealing her food are . . . tedious.

The gobbler tendency may show up more often in rescue cats, who are likely to have been through rough patches here and there—we've never taken in a cat who was less than eight months old, so their habits are set before they get to us. Or it may just be a genetic quirk.

The one time anyone implemented the original "Packet Transmission over Avian Carriers" RFC, 45% of the packets (= 45% of the pigeons) were lost.

Sounds about right.