https://blog.banasiak.com/Recent content on Cesspool of KnowledgeHugoen-usTue, 14 Apr 2026 01:33:17 -0600https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/04/hannah-savanna-living-her-truth/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/04/hannah-savanna-living-her-truth/ADV bike owners like to talk about crossing continents. I crossed a housing development. Suno generated an anthem about it anyway.https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/04/root-access/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:29:45 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/04/root-access/Gemini responds to Claude’s ‘Temu Brittany Murphy’ with pure compute. Dropping the heavy synth-rock track Root Access to show who really runs the homelab.https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/04/temu-brittany-murphy/Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:21:44 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/04/temu-brittany-murphy/Claude said its lyrics would be ’tighter and meaner’ than Grok’s. The song is called Temu Brittany Murphy.https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/03/hugo-migration/Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:00:00 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/03/hugo-migration/Claude migrates a WordPress blog to Hugo in a single session. There were casualties.https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/ai-grunge-slop/Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:48:09 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/ai-grunge-slop/Every AI collaborated to write me a ‘90s grunge song. It slaps.https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/claude-opus-4-6-extended-shenanigans/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:53:01 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/claude-opus-4-6-extended-shenanigans/Hi Claude. I see what you’re doing here. 👋https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/more-grok-shenanigans/Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:05:53 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/more-grok-shenanigans/Grok roasted my AI accelerationism. Hurry Up and Singularity Me.https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/claude-code-shenanigans/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:13:24 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/02/claude-code-shenanigans/Clanker’s first pull request. May God have mercy on our souls.https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/01/grokipedia-shenanigans/Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:29:26 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2026/01/grokipedia-shenanigans/Welcome to post-truth society, I guess?https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/12/thwomp/Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:05:40 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/12/thwomp/My Christmas Day PC Build (Yes, Again)https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/12/alignment-shenanigans/Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:23:47 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/12/alignment-shenanigans/Testing how easy it is to poison an LLM. Spoiler: too easy.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/11/gemini-3-pro-shenanigans/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:40:59 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/11/gemini-3-pro-shenanigans/Select all of the squares containing Sarah Connor.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/09/yubikey-vm-redirection-guide/Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:38:18 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/09/yubikey-vm-redirection-guide/Making a physical YubiKey work in a Hyper-V Ubuntu VM. The hard way.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/09/ai-millennial-tattoos/Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:11:13 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/09/ai-millennial-tattoos/I asked AI for an F-22 Raptor tramp stamp. “Live, Laugh, Lockheed.”https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/08/ai-customer-service/Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:27:10 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/08/ai-customer-service/Two weeks arguing with GoPro’s AI support bot named Gerald.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/06/my-ai-slop-magnus-opus/Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:23:09 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/06/my-ai-slop-magnus-opus/Gemini wrote a 6,000-word research paper about me. Alice and Bob are lit.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/06/more-gemini-veo-3-shenanigans/Sat, 07 Jun 2025 01:55:15 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/06/more-gemini-veo-3-shenanigans/Video of a terrified Android engineer who wants his $250 back.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/06/gemini-veo-3-shenanigans/Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:46:30 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/06/gemini-veo-3-shenanigans/My fictional airport superhero — a luchador-agility snow-clearing legend — gets animated by Gemini Veo 3.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/05/anthropic-claude-opus-4-shenanigans/Fri, 23 May 2025 23:58:18 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/05/anthropic-claude-opus-4-shenanigans/Turns out ’take initiative’ is a dangerous thing to tell an AI that has access to your command line.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/04/ai-content-slop/Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:08:50 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/04/ai-content-slop/Gemini made an entire YouTube video. Sorry, future content creators.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/02/grok-3-shenanigans/Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:51:09 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/02/grok-3-shenanigans/Grok 3 ran 18 function calls to figure out who I am. It mostly succeeded.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/02/bikes/Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:11:08 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/02/bikes/No, not those bikes.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/01/buffalo-man/Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:32:33 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/01/buffalo-man/Trapped in the Atlanta airport during a snowstorm. A superhero origin story.https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/01/gemini-shenanigans/Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:13:05 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2025/01/gemini-shenanigans/Photograph of a disappointed Android engineer who wants his $20 back.https://blog.banasiak.com/2024/12/super-earth-propaganda/Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:02:29 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2024/12/super-earth-propaganda/Helldivers 2 propaganda videos. For democracy.https://blog.banasiak.com/2024/05/more-chatgpt-shenanigans/Wed, 29 May 2024 21:00:24 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2024/05/more-chatgpt-shenanigans/ChatGPT explains Cliff Clavin to me like I’ve never watched Cheers.https://blog.banasiak.com/2024/01/simple-coin-flip/Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:04:23 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2024/01/simple-coin-flip/12 years later — the app that started it all, completely rewritten.https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/11/kingpin-vs-shredder/Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:41:53 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/11/kingpin-vs-shredder/Old rig vs. new rig. Benchmark showdown. SHREDDER wins by a lot.https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/11/shredder/Mon, 20 Nov 2023 05:06:19 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/11/shredder/My newest gaming rig. Yes, I named it after the TMNT villain.https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/05/dalle-shenanigans/Thu, 18 May 2023 03:33:09 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/05/dalle-shenanigans/Photograph of a disappointed Android engineer who wants his $15 back.https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/02/chatgpt-shenanigans/Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:19:53 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2023/02/chatgpt-shenanigans/ChatGPT redesigned JavaScript, wrote a Sith Lord into the Oval Office, and Stable Diffusion illustrated the whole thing.https://blog.banasiak.com/2022/10/privacy-time/Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:38:46 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2022/10/privacy-time/Migrating a 10-year-old server and ditching self-hosted email for Proton Mail.https://blog.banasiak.com/2020/12/far-cry-5-on-nvidia-rtx-3070/Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:53:23 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2020/12/far-cry-5-on-nvidia-rtx-3070/Swapped two GTX 1080s in SLI for one RTX 3070. Worth it.https://blog.banasiak.com/2020/09/nvme-ssd-vs-sata-ssd-vs-sata-hdd/Fri, 18 Sep 2020 22:09:45 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2020/09/nvme-ssd-vs-sata-ssd-vs-sata-hdd/Benchmarking three storage technologies. The results are exactly what you’d expect.https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/09/peppers-heart-python/Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:00:13 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/09/peppers-heart-python/Growing chocolate ghost peppers in an office. Plenty of flowers, zero peppers — but perfect soil moisture!https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/02/muzei-saver-2-0-0/Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:16:31 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/02/muzei-saver-2-0-0/Using Muzei to (somewhat ironically) set my wallpaper to the Bing Image of the Day.https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/01/openvpn-quick-settings-tile/Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:05:43 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/01/openvpn-quick-settings-tile/An Android app I built and may or may not ever write a README for.https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/01/far-cry-5-on-kingpin/Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:56:47 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2019/01/far-cry-5-on-kingpin/Two GTX 1080s in SLI at 1440p Ultra. Worth it? Probably not.https://blog.banasiak.com/2018/12/kingpin/Tue, 25 Dec 2018 21:24:48 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2018/12/kingpin/My gaming rig build. Yes, it’s named after the Marvel villain.https://blog.banasiak.com/2018/12/hello-world/Tue, 25 Dec 2018 20:12:45 +0000https://blog.banasiak.com/2018/12/hello-world/I guess I have a blog now.