{"id":5681,"date":"2026-08-16T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:31:44","slug":"odd-lots-373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5681","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20260807-whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-have-dinner\">Here\u2019s a longish and intriguing article about how our meal schedules affect bodily health<\/a>. There\u2019s some evidence that morning people eat healthier than night people simply by eating meals earlier. Carol and I jump out of bed a little after 6, and often start dinner at 4:15 PM. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/best-time-to-eat-dinner-for-blood-sugar-12009430\">Here\u2019s another piece on the topic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My friend Pete sent a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/08\/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment\/\">a solid piece on how Internet search worked before Google<\/a>. I used Alta Vista a lot back then, and had a Usenet login until my ISP stopped carrying it in the late oughts.<\/li>\n<li>And if you\u2019ve never had a Usenet login and know little or nothing about it, <a href=\"https:\/\/datahoarder.io\/is-usenet-still-around\/\">here\u2019s a quick summary<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/doctors-surprised-by-the-power-of-a-simple-drug-against-colon-cancer\/\">An aspirin a day may keep colon cancer from coming back after surgery<\/a>. They\u2019re still not sure precisely how this works, but as long as it <em>does<\/em> work, I\u2019m all for it.<\/li>\n<li>An American PBS affiliate in Denver stored its data in a cloud server. <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2026\/08\/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider\/\">When the cloud server company (not the server hardware company) went under, the PBS affiliate still can\u2019t get its terabytes of TV shows back<\/a> from the server hardware outfit. I have never liked (nor used) cloud storage, and this is just another instance of why.<\/li>\n<li>I wasn\u2019t expecting this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/08\/260811052857.htm\">Beamforming feedback information (BFI) sent to a router from connected wireless devices like phones, laptops and tablets can be used to generate high-quality images of people within the microwave field<\/a> used by the local Wi-Fi WLAN installations. The tech is hard to describe, but it generate images of human users detailed enough to identify. Think Flock cameras are bad?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them\/\">Some clever scoundrel used a tiny white font displayed on a white background to inject \u201cinvisible\u201d (to humans) prompts into an AI<\/a> working for a court of law in Connecticut. He got caught, but once this trick gets around, it could become a very serious problem.<\/li>\n<li>Protons are not as simple as they used to be; long ago they were, well, bohring. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/after-50-years-physicists-find-strong-evidence-for-what-really-holds-matter-together\">These days they\u2019re full of valence quarks, baryons, and gluons<\/a>. Thankfully for us, there\u2019s more matter than antimatter in the cosmos, and scientists hope that this new view of proton anatomy may explain the reason for that precious imbalance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a longish and intriguing article about how our meal schedules affect bodily health. There\u2019s some evidence that morning people eat healthier than night people simply by eating meals earlier. Carol and I jump out of bed a little after 6, and often start dinner at 4:15 PM. Here\u2019s another piece on the topic. 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