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So this is totally sea lawyering, but it's worth knowing about a change to law instituted by a recent NDAA, at 10 USC 986. It's short so I'll just quote the entire thing:

The Secretary of Defense may not require or prohibit a member of the armed forces or a civilian employee of the Department of Defense to identify the gender or personal pronouns of such member or employee in any official correspondence of the Department.

Now, this was an effort by legislators to prevent the DoD from mandating that you list your pronouns. But they wrote it even-handedly, and so it also prevents the DoD from forbidding you to list your pronouns.

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The BOL system is showing a huge warning banner now about a shutdown to take effect next week or thereabouts, regarding Adobe Document Services.

This in particular impacts letters to the board using ESSBD, EVAL/FITREP submission to the OMPF, Navy Awards, DD-214. Some other things too.

Strongly recommend you get your stuff up to date NOW if you have any boards coming up soon.

So I'm the kdesrc-build maintainer, and in the course of some development on kdesrc-build I was installing some random modules.

Some Plasma repositories were included in these updates, and this apparently brought in some of the changes that provide the fancy panel transparency that Nate just blogged about... but left me without some important updates for this change.

Plasma didn't like this, but the desktop was still present, just not panel and widgets. Before I knew the cause, and I thought about how to debug this, I got my windows settled as I normally do, a browser window in the left half and a Konsole and Konversation dividing the right half equally, snapped into place by KWin.

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