Michał Paluchowski

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Software maker. Chaos monkey. Hawaiian shirts.
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Żenujące jest takie różnicowanie cen i robienie sobie marketingu (?) na prywatności dzieci-klientów.

Pisaliśmy już na Niebezpieczniku o patologiach wymuszania zgód w kontekście zawodów sportowych PZPN. Ale chyba pora na kolejny artykuł dotyczący firm prywatnych, które mają takie kwiatki w regulaminach.

Podsyłajcie je nam, jak gdzieś napotkacie podobne zapisy. Zbierzemy, opiszemy.

Takie praktyki trzeba piętnować.

ChatGPT and others wouldn't be nearly as popular if it wasn't for all the SEO spam that's around these days.

A simple web search for the spring equinox's date yields tens of ad-ridden, text-filled pages where the answer is buried somewhere in the fifteenth paragraph. AI returns a straightforward answer in one sentence.

Workers Who Love 'Synergizing Paradigms' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs - Slashdot

Cornell University makes an announcement. "Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like 'synergistic leadership,' or 'growth-hacking paradigms' may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals." Published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, r...

Common people are genuinely surprised when I explain that LLMs, or what's called "AI" these days", is just brute force statistics.

> OpenAI's large language models process text using tokens, which are common sequences of characters found in a set of text. The models learn to understand the statistical relationships between these tokens, and excel at producing the next token in a sequence of tokens.

https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

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Inside: Supreme Court saves artists from AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap/

#Pluralistic

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No company has announced “thanks to AI, we have the same number of employees, but we have launched zillions of new services and are growing our product lines because of all the time our people get to spend innovating.”

I don’t know why that is.

This is sad 😢

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847

UPDATE (2026-03-02): This toot has gotten a lot more attention than what I would ever anticipate. Some clarifications are needed. A follow up is here: https://infosec.exchange/@dazo/116158898983233133

#firefox #privacy #mozilla #foss #opensource #web

Agentic AI-based services are the new Shadow IT. Change my mind.
Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge - Slashdot

Anthropic, the AI company that has long positioned itself as the industry's most safety-conscious research lab, is dropping the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy -- a 2023 pledge to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee beforehand that its safety measures were adequat...

My 2018 Dell Latitude was acting strange for the last few months. I thought I might have a reason to upgrade. Alas, not. Turned out one of the RAM modules needed replacing, and now I'm back with a perfectly stable, performant machine running the latest #Fedora.

The year of #Linux on desktops would be a really bad year for PC vendors.