Improve stability of CI/CD pipelines

[jngrad]

Description of changes:

• update the pylint config file (fixes #4918)
• C++: fix several instances of -Wunused-parameter and -Wsign-compare
• CMake: fix linker warnings in ScaFaCoS and Kokkos, simplify configuration of the espresso::scafacos target
• CMake: simplify dependency tree of espresso::core, espresso::walberla, espresso::walberla_cuda targets
• address Jupyter warnings with a newer Docker image where the Jupyter environment is properly set up
• bump Node.js to v20 to address GitHub Actions deprecation warnings
• add jq dependency to address GitHub bot script failures

[jngrad]

This PR is blocking the GPU LB performance improvement PR.