Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Two Second Test of Google's Gemini

 It's too hot, and the state is on fire. What Isn't on actual fire, is within smoke. Smoke even reaches to the Lair, even though the "Aspen Acres Fire" is not actually near Aspen. You might Think "Mountain Air", but no, the smoke reaches here and the lack of meaningful ozone makes the heat of it all the more challenging. Helmet Air Filters? N-95s for protection from Covid or Measles (compromised immune system means even the Flu could take a toll and then the pathogenic bacteria awakens and finds something to eat. 

One cooks like a lobster in July (Never take up challenges involving outdoor activities in July/August) and so, One hides out more often. The helmet begins to feel like a tomb and that takes some mental gymnastics to deal with. Note to Self: Need a better helmet. Oh, and Thanks ICE for making life in Public in a Helmet SO much more stressful.  

Things going on? Well upgrades here and there - One is a terrible tinkerer, and studying Agentic AI - One would like a modular structure to swap components in and out of an OS like program (a harken back to NLMs in NetWare). That and Vibe Coding which seems a Lot like thrall driving (except the thrall is an AI). 

Stats appear to show One is fantastically popular with a Proxy Server in Vietnam, so That's not fooling anyone and never has. 

But to the point of the title here, two seconds with an AI. And remember, this isn't Art, it's machine product, devoid of humanity. And what can art possibly Be without humanity? (See One's future work in "Infinite Malignance" - the blog and other work done by a Malignance Cloned AI. 

"Villain in a Brass Helmet"
By Gemini AI

"No features formed, no flesh to see, 
A void where visage ought to be. 
Yet crowning this hollow, dread design, 
A helmet forged in brass malign. 

It gleams with dark and polished grace,
A metal shell above the space. 
It speaks in echoes, cold and hollow, 
Commanding legions forced to follow. 

No eyes to meet, no lips to curl, 
As shadows take the bleeding world. 
The brass reflects the burning lands, 
Ruled by the Villain's faceless hands." 

Malignopalooza17 is coming up on Colorado Day (August 1st). 17 Years in public Villainy, and That's a fair bit. 

M

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Villain Resources

 Lairwear 

Bulletproof Clothing; 



Library;

5 Books: 



Communication; 

Programming Resources

 

Vibe Coding 
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/a-live-iso-for-those-vibe-coding-experiments/


3 AIs to build a portfolio website;
https://www.xda-developers.com/used-claude-code-antigravity-and-perplexity-computer-to-build-a-portfolio


AutoAgent to tune your prompts; 
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/05/meet-autoagent-the-open-source-library-that-lets-an-ai-engineer-and-optimize-its-own-agent-harness-overnight/


Claude Mythos; 
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-mythos-latest-ai-model-too-powerful-to-be-released-2026-4


Ollama - easy to start LLMs; 
https://www.xda-developers.com/ollama-easiest-way-start-local-llms-worst-keep-running/


Concerns about coders losing skills;
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-customers-creeped-out-models

Agent Smith;
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-agent-smith-employees-ai-driven-coding-2026-3



Thursday, June 11, 2026

One Has Been Chasing About...

 Quick post. 

The Annual Accounting in the Mighty Colorado Holdfast, held each year in March went long. One won't sully One's space with that foul orange toad's name, but he Has had a financial impact on My Colorado Holdfast and so the collection of tribute from the vassalage has gone long - and was sparse. 
Bah. 

Oh, and One has been having proxy wars with Oligarchs who fund putin's mischief in My Holdfast, inviting the peril of my will. It seems they choose to hire Chechen assassins who, generously, are incompetent.
But that's a story for another time.

While this was going on, One ran into an article describing a team of programmers ("Code Slaves") running into Claude Code and prompting it with a project they had been working on. It shortly produced months of their work. 

This has led One to a course correction and it's a concept called Vibe Coding. One could not hope to do better than the AIs (or a team of programmers) and while Ego is Ego, Villains are Also pragmatic. So One will hope to leverage Some work to AIs ("Infinite Malignance" for one) but still try and become capable of reading python code in as much as modifying code and understanding it for bug hunting. 

A side note - this has its own peril. The first Malignanceship was a slapped together hodgepodge of jury rigged technologies stolen from Obsidian Labs, DARPA, Hanger18, and something One stole from the Lizardmen from the Earth's Core. Did One understand, really ANY of it? No, One did not. It worked, and if it Stopped working One could bang on it, or sus what it wanted and get it to do what was needed. This is Not a sustainable technology model. 

Will this work on Malignobots? Well - they are designed to do Very Bad Things and if you Don't understand the code, that could be problematic... 

But isn't that where a Villain really Wants to be? The unknown and against impossible odds with nothing but wits and resolve and a goal in mind. To, essentially conquer and Rule the World (or at least a part of it)? It sounds just fine. 

M


Saturday, February 28, 2026

TUTORIAL HELL

 Tutorial Hell - One did not know this existed until One fell into it. And it's Baaaad. 

It turns out there are many funcitons in Python and you can begin learning from one video and learn about some basic functions, then go away, forget where the video was and decide that because there are Many tutorials on Python, you can just choose another. True with as many books

But - they teach different functions! 

"Tutorial hell is a common, frustrating cycle for learners (especially in programming) where you continuously consume tutorials, courses, and books, feeling productive, yet cannot build projects independently. It happens because you are passively following steps rather than actively solving problems, leading to a false sense of progress.

Key Aspects of Tutorial Hell:

Passive Learning: You copy-paste or blindly follow code without understanding the "why".

Lack of Independence: You feel frozen or clueless when starting a project from scratch.

False Confidence: You think you are learning, but realize you haven't retained skills when you try to apply them"


One found different solutions to Tutorial Hell, but One likes this one best - and it suits the Malignance Style of jumping into the fire and figuring it all out as One goes along - the panic stimulates the Brilliance! Danger of Generalists vs Polymaths


Of course, One is vulnerable to rabbit holes - Meshtastic has been a curiosity and a serious consideration until One stumbled on Reticulum (alternatives to standard networks) - One would like to incorporate that into the umbrella of projects, but truly One doesn't have the understanding - so later on down the road on these. Maybe offload That spectrum of projects to the Galt's Gulch Space Center as it's not doing anything since the Malignanceship projects and the Malignosphere projects shut down. Maybe this whole field could be rolled Into the Malignosphere technologies? (advanced cutting edge technology solutions). Need to farm that out to someone, because One's plate is full. 


M

Saturday, January 31, 2026

Catching up - an Aside

 Been away for studying and trying to keep up on goals. The Annual Accounting is coming up shortly, and needs must be met There, but One hopes to earn that CPEP certificate first (way behind on studying as if that should be any surprise). 

The Home Assistant components have all been collected, and one has found two valuable resources - that youtube channel, and an engineer One knows from professional pursuits. He's got this same system, and has done some very sophisticated work with it. Not quite a SUtech (no AI) but a very responsive system (and far superior than my previous iteration of SUtech). Need to start assembling That as time allows. 

One restarted this site as a response to AI just totally jankying up One's legacy. Ai Agents - such as my proposed "Infinite Malignance" are making slop wherever you look. After discovering my heretofore unrevealed secret identity as "Tea Krulos"(see first post), the many Other faces of Lord Malignance have finally been revealed; 

One genuinely doesn't know where these ideas are coming from, but One enjoys the absurdity of a person with No face, finding himself possessing so Many faces. But that one bald dude with the stone in the background - wearing all black - could That be the True face of Malignance?

Alas, no. 

Trying to clear out the Lair, one came upon two terrariums One had hoped to start plants with. The plants failed, but the jars were sealed and buried in a box for many years. Who Knows what may grow when they're exposed to light once more? 


As One goes along, One is going to continue to update the various project pages, and post progress in blogs, and the usual success towards various objectives. There's just a lot of reading going on, but One cannot let the goals get by (it's a SuperVillain thing). 

M