So New Hampshire (for reasons) rescinded non-commercial vehicle inspections requirements as part of the two-year state budget HB2 enacted 30-Jun-2025, with inspections and stickers required through 31-Jan-2026, and not required after.

However….

Yesterday — three days before the inspections requirements change was to happen — a federal judge issued a stay, as NH reportedly hadn’t managed to request removal of the emissions requirement from the US EPA until late December 2025.

This because the vendor that runs the NH inspections lodged a federal lawsuit.

Per NHPR: "McCafferty said in her ruling that both sides in the case agree that the state would be in violation of the federal Clean Air Act if it were to abolish the program without approval of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.”

“The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services requested this approval on Dec. 24, but the EPA has not yet acted on that request, the ruling said."

Which means anybody that has a vehicle inspection expiring 31-Jan-2026 (and later, as those monthly re-inspections come due) is now in legal limbo.

NH DMV (website screenshot below) hasn’t updated their website, so it’s anybody’s guess what will happen here.

Will EPA permit this change?

Will local police re-commence enforcing inspections in February contry to HB2?

What about police elsewhere?

Will some vehicle owners get temporary inspections, or scramble to get inspections, assuming the inspection providers can even still do those, and have the necessary 2027 stickers?

Per an unnamed state spokesperson: “The State will be issuing further guidance for the public in the coming days.”

Tune in again for the next exciting installment of inspections (re)(un)required!

🙄

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/new-hampshire-car-inspection-law-date/

DOGE: Mission Accomplished

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3m6ciwm2h3c24

As should surprise exactly no one, BIMI is useful for adding authenticity to email scams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_Indicators_for_Message_Identification

Seems like Intuit QuickBooks can be useful for sending BIMI-compliant spam, too.

#spam #bimi

On today of all days, there’s a story here somewhere, I know it.

“Roses! I said I wanted roses!”

“Oh. Flowers? From _them_? Again?”

“Next time, call my lawyer!”

Woodworking tools:

The dado-cutting tool I’ve been seeing used in a video series is the Mafell NFU Groove Cutter.

It’s basically a portable track saw loaded with a single-piece dado blade.

For those unfamiliar, commonly-available dado blades in the US are positively Rube Goldberg designs, comprised of two sawblades sandwiching separate and sharp and fast-whirling blades.

This Mafell brings the table saw to the timber, and with what looks to be a decidedly better (and seemingly safer) blade design than most of the US table saw dado blades I’ve worked with.

Not a cheap power tool, though.

https://produkte.mafell.de/usa/mortising/groove-and-multi-cutter/groove-cutting-machine-nfu-50

#woodworking #dado #mafell

My brain might be mush some days, but this doesn’t look like any Canadian map I recall.

Not unless The Crown Estate has reclaimed and reorganized Alberta and British Columbia.

I’m not liking this wrong-around-the-edges AI world we’re now awash in.

It reeks of self-organizing mass gaslighting.

All these recent discussions of error handling and mishandling and parsing and NaNs in my timeline all circulating like NaTs on an #Itanium are reminiscent of the video player controls seen on a very much not-small website.

Oh, and as for NaNs and videos, and for the ~three of you that haven’t yet seen it, “A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012”, a very short and very funny video on this same topic:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

#humor #humour #wat #NaN #floatingpoint #FloatingPointArithmetic #fp
https://oldbytes.space/@arclight/112047281273277753