marmar

@marmar@sunny.garden
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marmar - (mar)² | he/him | 🇵🇷 #puertorico | late 90s old man in his near 30s | dgd & jrpgs | #noai | plz support your local libraries
profile pic: a doodle of myself as an old man, just a head with long curly hair and a mustache, squinting eyes behind round glasses.
websitehttps://itsmarmar.space
bloghttps://blog.itsmarmar.space

Since the conversation about Bad Bunny here is in full force, can we talk about the fact that DTMF can be interpreted as a mournful song in an era where pandemic erasure is in full force?

We lost millions of people. And here is this man talking about “I should’ve taken more pictures when I could”

#BadBunny #dtmf #SuperBowl #COVID19

I'll never understand the mentality of dunking on devs who, simply, ask for donations like, a few times a year - if even that.

It's kinda crazy that people get so mad about something that doesn't seem that bad to me.

> We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

How AI Impacts Skill Formation

AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of AI. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation -- particularly in safety-critical domains.

arXiv.org

We recently came across an amazing project called uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist.

As they describe it, it's:

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

There's something really lovely at the top of the uBlock Origin filter list, just under the description, that brought us a small bit of very-much-needed joy, and we wanted to share it here with others 🫶

! HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

! Please support authentic artists! Whether it be commissions or donations, an amount of any size helps!

! I love you.
! You are valid.
! LGBTQ+ Rights!
! Keep your chin up--we will get through this together <33
! Have a happy day!

  

#NoAi #FuckAI #AIBlockList #uBlockOrigin #BlockList #uBlacklist #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #queer #QueerRightsAreHumanRights

Edit: Thank you to fedizens who've added some additional lists of note 🫶

Stevo's GenAI Blocklist was mentioned here.

HPT-AI-Blocklists (HOSTS format) was mentioned here.

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GitHub

There is no "best" in Linux.

There is no best distro. There's no best desktop environment. There's no best app.

All of that absolutist, best of 2026 nonsense has as much thought and consideration as a techbro using ChatGPT to write the speech he'll give you before laying everyone off.

There is no best in Linux. Anyone who says that is a damned liar, including myself.

There is only "best" for *you*.

I’ve picked up #blogging recently and I’ve written two posts so far.

The first is about my experience working in sales, which you can read here: https://blog.itsmarmar.space/journal/2025/11/26/sales.html

The latest one features the voice of the announcer for super smash bros. 64 in a dream I had recently, which you can read here: https://blog.itsmarmar.space/journal/dreams/2026/02/02/the-opposite-of-nightmares.html

marmar murmurs - how to get promoted to customer as a salesman - tales of corporate chicanery

Trying to draw the interior of "Centro Cultural São Paulo" (Sao Paulo Cultural Center). It has a very interesting architecture and the friends who were at the table challenged me to draw it 😅

Me, my partner and a couple friends went there to talk and draw a bit, I also got to play a few chess games before that (it's a well-known place where people go to play), so it was a very pleasant visit 😁

#saopaulo #drawing #sketch #ccsp

"I had wished for this—snow falling from the sky—growing up sweating on a tropical island, where 100% humidity is a daily occurrence.

Still, I prefer this shit to the daily, 100% humidity."

From "Be careful what you wish for: a cautionary tale," my has-yet-to-be-written autobiography lol.

hello. i'm marmar. not usually very active on social media but thought i'd give mastodon a try. just migrated over to sunny.garden so here's a little #introduction post

- de #PR 🇵🇷
- sadly living in the US
- from the very very late 1900s

some interests:
#games : #megaten #smt #persona #jrpg #zelda #indie #dnd #ttrpg

#cartoons : #stevenuniverse #adventuretime #overthegardenwall

#dropout : #makesomenoise #dimension20

#books : #fantasy #history #politics #scifi

#music : #dancegavindance #gameaudio #gamemusic #vgm #emo #postHardcore #neosoul