It's far from over, but I'm definitely not proud of my timeline. Thanks for believing in us :) View quoted note →

Did I mention my workstation is actually a laptop. Had a really good fleabay price. It will be hard wired, but technically it's a laptop form factor XD. I've become a Dell fanboy over the years

@GitCitadel contributors are awesome! Thank you! View quoted note →

Cmake building noscrypt, in a container, on a fedora 43 vm, on 16 ivy bridge cores and quad rank ddr3 1333, is currently whooping on my 3900x ddr4 3200 dual rank. I should have timed it properly before it stopped working. Old server hardware can still be very usable.

Still pretty crazy the DOJ just decided to drop a tons of criminal cases completely. Like go home, were done here, our people will call your people. View quoted note →

BREAKING: United States EPA Criminal department drops all criminal investigations relating to emissions tampering under the clean air act (January 22, 2026) In a Twitter post (I can't find) they stated they wanted to "avoid overcriminalization of federal environmental law" Those of you who are new, the US Department of justice made a branch called Environment and Natural Resources Division that acts under the EPA. They had been pursuing business's of any size and even individuals suspected of tampering or defeating emissions systems on vehicles. This is big news for my friends in the industry who, overnight, simply had their criminal cases dropped. They get to go home, or go back home to see their families without the fear of going to or back to federal prison. This still means that - the EPA can still financially ruin you, your family, and your friends - its not magically legal to tamper/modify vehicle management or emissions systems - the fines... sorry I mean penalties, won't be any more reasonable - if the penalties grow large enough you could still face prison time (BTW your culpability is rated on some imaginary scale which is not up for dispute...)

EPA, DOJ Drop Criminal Vehicle Tampering Cases Under Clean Air Act | InsideEPA.com

EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are dropping all pending criminal Clean Air Act enforcement cases alleging unlawful vehicle emissions tampe...

Justice Dept. kills cases cracking down on auto emissions cheating

The Justice Department ordered prosecutors to drop all pending cases targeting the sale of illicit

It hopefully means I'm being watched by one less agency now :)

Honestly not sure I'm ever going to build another consumer parts-based workstation ever again. It's always been fun building custom PCs, but price vs stability has gotten so bad imo. For someone that relies on a machine to work 7/365 I've never gotten that from consumer parts. I'll probably still build custom rigs for other purposes, but I think I need to leave my main workstation alone.