{"id":5460,"date":"2025-08-06T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:44:54","slug":"odd-lots-358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5460","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I wouldn\u2019t have predicted this one: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/features\/digital-grave-robbing-how-ai-is-plundering-online-obituaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scammers are using AI to create fake obituaries<\/a> of the (very) recently deceased. The fake obits are on fake sites seeking to attract ad revenue.<\/li>\n<li>When you\u2019ve got an hour (or a day) to kill, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldradiohistory.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">World Radio History<\/a>. Navigating isn\u2019t easy sometimes, but they have <em>Popular Electronics<\/em>, <em>Electronics Illustrated<\/em>, <em>Radio Electr<\/em>onics, manufacturer catalogs, old publications, music magazines, and who knows what else. (I didn\u2019t have a day to kill but will eventually.)<\/li>\n<li>While researching the health issues surrounding nitric oxide, I ran across a peculiar claim: That <a href=\"https:\/\/superfitseniors.com\/the-science-behind-130-hertz-humming-to-increase-nitric-oxide\/\" target=\"_blank\">humming at 120-130 Hz while exhaling increases nitric oxide in the body<\/a>. Supposedly, the vibration within this frequency band helps tissues in the sinuses synthesize nitric oxide. Hum along with your digital audio generator, I guess. It\u2019s worth a look, even if I\u2019m skeptical\u2014but that doesn\u2019t mean I won\u2019t try it.<\/li>\n<li>This is kinda cool: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Space_Force_rank_insignia\" target=\"_blank\">A summary of the US Space Force rank insignia<\/a>. Commissioned officer insignia resembles those of the other services, but the enlisted insignia are way cooler, especially the four ranks of specialists.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m seeing a lot of articles about directed microwave energy weapons that can disable flying drones by scrambling their electronics, literally dropping whole swarms out of the sky. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/news\/army-news\/2025\/microwaves-against-the-swarm-a-new-phase-in-us-counter-drone-strategy\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s the most recent I\u2019ve seen, about Epirus\u2019s contract with the US Army<\/a>. (There are others.) Now, drone manufacturers will try to microwave-harden their drones, but that will make them more expensive, heavier, and less likely to be deployed in huge swarms.<\/li>\n<li><em>Smithsonian Magazine<\/em> published a history of Morse Code back in 2022, and (now that <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/looking-to-ditch-twitter-morse-code-is-back\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s been re-posted by Pocket<\/a>) I recommend it. Morse hasn\u2019t been required for radio amateurs since 2007, but back in 1973, as a Novice licensee, Morse was all there was. And I did ok, ok enough to get 13 wpm for a General, and later the Advanced, for which 13 wpm was enough. Although I studied for Extra, I never managed 20 WPM, and now that there\u2019s no code test at all, I\u2019m thinking I should try again.<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s a\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v6wymyc-ever-see-a-table-that-can-walk-to-where-you-want-now-you-have-dang.html\" target=\"_blank\">walking table<\/a>. I might call it \u201ccreepy\u201d if I didn\u2019t respect the cleverness of the mechanism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn\u2019t have predicted this one: Scammers are using AI to create fake obituaries of the (very) recently deceased. The fake obits are on fake sites seeking to attract ad revenue. When you\u2019ve got an hour (or a day) to kill, check out World Radio History. Navigating isn\u2019t easy sometimes, but they have Popular Electronics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,21,161,272],"class_list":["post-5460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove","tag-ai","tag-electronics","tag-gadgets","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}