Wez Furlong

@wez@treehouse.systems
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Creator of WezTerm. 💓🦀
Ex-Meta (Creator of Watchman and EdenFS).
Ex-Message Systems.
PHP internals alum.
I'm offering Mentoring at https://wezfurlong.org/mentoring/ and writing a Systems Programming with Rust book: https://leanpub.com/sysprog
#nobridge
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The most stressful video you'll see today

#adhd #meme #adhdmeme #neurodivergent #adhs #stress

“What are we actually saying here — that even Microsoft has to evaluate usage of “AI” directly, because it doesn’t affect performance enough to have an obvious impact otherwise? That the technology is so limp that even its biggest investor has to strong-arm its own employees into using it? That their own employees don’t want to use it?”

Among other excellent quotes, this one stuck out to me from eevee’s article about… well, Whatever.

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @eevee:

"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqi

Wednesday, it's Captain!

(see https://mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/114676343373917170, https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/114680337675015896, now posted from a proper computer with a keyboard and edit tools instead of a cellphone, and on an actual Wednesday)

JSON: At least it's not YAML
YAML: At least it's not JSON
XML: Maybe if I don't move at all it can't see me
presbyopia (what I've been calling "middle aged eyes") is particularly sucky if you need to do computer work and only have access to a laptop. For "comfortable" viewing you need to choose between using it as a "knee-top" at arms-length, or a "hunch-top" with it being in-your-face. Neither position is ideal for ergnonomics!

I’m in the process of moving back to the UK from the US; moves are always stressful, and this one has been the most stressful yet!

Currently jet lagged and in temporary accommodation, but enjoying the British summer weather!

Today we're switching the bzip2 crate from C to 100% rust!
The bzip2 crate is now memory-safe, faster and easier to cross-compile.

https://trifectatech.org/blog/bzip2-crate-switches-from-c-to-rust/

Thanks to: @alex_crichton, @ros , and @nlnet

This project was funded through the e-Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet Foundation with financial support from the @minbzk .

#rustlang #rust #securebydesign

bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust - Trifecta Tech Foundation

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You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqi

@jwz This is how everything from freedesktop.org/gnome sounds in my head.
@jwz so much more engaging than the voices used in my employer's compulsory online training courses
@jwz I loved number 5. 🙂
I'm literally rolling on the floor, cannot contain the laughter. Thanks for this, I needed it.
@jwz I could do that better

@codinghorror @jwz Prove it

(Seriously, you’ve got a mic, we all need this)

@luis_in_brief @jwz

Yes, go @codinghorror

Even if it's not better we all want to hear your attempt.

@u47 @jwz "it ain't bragging if you can back it up"

@jwz At some point in the far-flung future this is going to be unearthed anew, and future people will assume that this was just how the people who built the internet *were*.

"No wonder civilization broke down completely by 2030," they'll say. "Listen to how absolutely insufferable those people were. Why, they *deserved* to perish in the COVID-locust inferno-canes. Praise be to Vance the Savior!"

@WesternInfidels And they would not be wrong.
New ad suggests Ted Cruz not tough as Texas

A new ad, directed by Richard Linklater, from a political action committee called Fire Ted Cruz hits the senator over his 'Tough as Texas' campaign slogan. The panel discusses.

MSNBC
@jwz I SHALL, but only because I want to and this is fucking hilarious.
@jwz he left it all in the booth and we respect that
@jwz this is so good :)))
@jwz I started playing that in Ivory’s in-app browser and as it turns out closing Ivory’s in-app browser does not stop playback, so now I’m getting the full experience with no way to stop it lol (other than killing the app)
@jwz absolutely brilliant!
@jwz ....I should pay pmseymour to read IP over Avian Carrier...
@jwz
This is gold.
I MUST, SHALL, and WILL boost this

@jwz
Reminds me of the reading of DECSS by Xader Vartec

https://decss.zoy.org/decss-read.mp3

Especially dramatic in minute 3-4

More on Wikipedia :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS?wprov=sfla1

@jwz this should be called the "but aksually" RFC.
@jwz This just made my day! Absolutely awesome!
@jwz This guy has replaced Morgan Freeman as the narrator of my day
@jwz I don’t know how much he paid the actor for this, but I’m sure it was worth every penny. 🤣
@jwz I'm willing to contribute to a crowdfunding effort to have every rfc narrated like this.
@jwz new ringtone just dropped.
@jwz Downloading this to loop during my plane rides tomorrow
@jwz kinda wanna remix it
@jwz I'm in tears
@jwz I don't know whether I want to congratulate the voice actor, or slap the hell out of them.
@jwz This is more hilarious than I imagined and I could almost imagine I was hearing it in the voice of Astarion.
@jwz Well this is certainly helping with travel planning for the next IETF meeting.