Relative to the viewer? From Earth, presumably? Facing in which direction?

No. I have a couple of semaphore flags I carry for emergencies. If I didn't have those I'd still be stuck down that well.

Yes, yes! With the mirror you *always* carry with you on trips to the woods...

With a folding phone, obviously.

"Eternity was in our lips and eyes. O brave new world, That has such people in it!"
-- William Shakespeare

Don't worry. They won't be able to do any harm. They'll have six twisted fingers on one hand, and another nine on the other foot.

There's so much contention in central London on Three that I can't get data most of the time. I'm hoping a merger might bring the benefits of expanded infrastructure. But I'm not getting my hopes up.

I'm pleased to see this finally start to happen. Some of us have been using them as a hearing aid for quite a while now. I posted a howto on Mastodon back in March 2023. The article got a mostly positive response. Some people were rightly cautious, but I think Apple got it right by allowing us to import an audiogram. It has helped me massively over the past year and a half.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftoot.cat%2F%40garry%2F110005...

Now, if only they'd fix that problem where Transparency mode switches itself off under certain circumstances yet to be discovered. A great many of us have had this problem, and pointed out how dangerous that can be. Apple ignores the problem, and the Apple 'geniuses' have never heard of it. Mind you, it was one of those who told me right there in the Apple Store that you can't use the AirPods Pro 2 as a hearing aid.

"Brighton general election candidate aims to be UK’s first ‘AI MP"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpo...

I just tried to log in, just in case I'd left some photos on there and got a message telling they can't log me in and that I should "check my input". I did. It's the same email and password it's been since the start, all those years ago. What *is* going on with this company?!

Oh, he was a physicist. I thought he was a sailor. I always thought of him as Higgs, Bo'sun.

Since the AirPods Pro software can already take an audiogram as input, it not only boosts conversation, but boosts hearing in the impaired range. I've been using mine as a hearing aid since I first bought them, having damaged my hearing at music gigs. I wrote an article on Mastodon on the subject, including how to set it all up, and many people found it useful.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftoot.cat%2F%40garry%2F110005...

I find this whole thing hard to swallow.

I don't know. I have't seen ads in a long time.

It might be that a lot of people are suddenly using it. This could happen if some idiot posts about it on a high-traffic site. Like, um... Slashdot? Nah.