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jimcullen, to brisbane

The longest-running scientific experiment, the Pitch Drop at the University of Queensland, Brisbane @brisbane

Nath,
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It would be weird if university students weren’t protesting something.

andrew, to android
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Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders

https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/google-pixel-9-renders-design-exclusive/

@android

Nath,
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the days of being remotely excited by phone design are way behind us. This looks like an iPhone 4 with a pixel 6+ camera bar. Meh.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to sydney
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The tree cover in Sydney's Hyde Park is so lush and cool on a hot day.

(And yes, to everyone reading this from interstate or overseas: I know naming the big park in the Sydney CBD "Hyde Park" was not exactly a creative choice.)

(I'll also refrain from making the obvious jokes about Sydney's asbestos crisis.)

@sydney

Nath,
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Gotta love those English settlers.
We are going to have a park here, what shall we call it?
Hyde Park!
But, Hyde Park is in England.
"Yes, but I can’t bring that one here, so let’s call this spot Hyde Park."

They did the same thing in Perth. There’s a Hyde Park here, also. Ours is also going to lose a fifth of its lovely trees in the near future.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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What should I add to my '90s website?

So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.

Some of the most important elements are already in place.

Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!

In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.

(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)

You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/

There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I'm looking for suggestions.

The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?

Second, it's just not going to be complete without a guestbook.

Third, any webring suggestions?

Fourth, what's the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?

Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?

UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I've added more annoying GIFs, a guestbook, a links page, and a cyber cat hangout.

UPDATE 2: And added even more gifs, an amazing Amiga demo, and a ton of links.

@asklemmy

Nath,
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You need this image:
hwg.org/images/lo-025.gif

You can even go all out and actually join legitimately: hwg.org/services/logo/

Nath,
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The great irony is: websites in the 90’s would have been made to cater to resolutions of 640x480. Fancy monitor resolutions went up to 1024x768.

So, viewing it on a mobile screen should be nicer than what a full computer in the 90’s could offer.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to Futurology
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Warning: This post is about to make you feel very old.

Think for a moment where you watched the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.

Well, one of the busses from those games is now on display at the Sydney Bus Museum.

But wait, what is a bus from the Sydney Olympics doing in a transport museum?

Well, because the 2000 Olympics were held almost a quarter of a century ago.

I did warn you this post would make you feel old.

@Sydney

Nath,
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My parents bought one of the Commodores that were driving VIPs around the games. A Special Olympic edition Commodore. They sold that car over 10 years ago. In fact the car they replaced the Commodore with has also since been sold.

thisisartman, (edited ) to android
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The reason for Android's Notification system being better than iOS, is solely due to the ability to turn off individual aspects of an application's notifications.

Google, the poor multi-billion dollar scrappy startup that maintains Android, made a payment app that has one notification setting, "Google Pay". So all the ads, promotions, everything.

3rd party apps like PhonePe & Paytm have a better system.

How do you manage to maintain this OS?

@MishaalRahman @androidfaithful @android @android

Nath,
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https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/ffb8a7bb-bec6-4c96-b45a-582a47e97ef0.png

This thread prompted me to look into the Wallet notification settings. There was a setting where Google could send you notifications. I just turned those off. I don’t want them, but I also can’t remember ever getting one.

I don’t really understand what the controversy is about. If an app abuses its notifications permissions to send me spam, I disable it. The post is right, granular notification settings in Android are great. I carry both android and iOS around every day and iOS notifications just kind of build up and periodically get cleared all at once. Too much noise in there. The android notifications are things I actually care about and want to be notified about in a timely fashion.

steveirons, to afl
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Dear @afl Can we have an intro of the You're The Voice https://youtube.com/watch?v=AF4DE3YmXhQ at the upcoming final? This would be the minimum required for support of

Nath,
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I love how you think there is a hope that league management might read this. I don’t know that we’ll ever be that mainstream, personally.

GoForStevenson, to bluey
Nath,
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I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog

But also, I think whoever wrote this hasn’t seen Obstacle Course.

Ultra980, to random

Welp, it's been nice here so far, but there's no mobile app for kbin and it's erroring out more often than not. That's why I'll be switching to lemmy (for now). Bye!

(P.S.: If, or when, Ernest makes kbin more stable and an API is available, I'll consider switching back. But until then, I'm ultra980 on lemmy.world, if anyone cares.)

Nath,
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I’ve been reading kbin.social posts the whole time I’ve been on Lemmy. Is it not just a regular Lemmy instance?

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to afl
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Do we want a bot that posts AFL news stories on @afl ?

There's a bot on Mastodon ( @AFL ) that automatically posts stories about the AFL.

I can request that the owner tags in the AFL group on Aussie Zone, so they appear here too.

But before I do, I just want to check that everyone here would be happy with the AFL bot posting here?

Nath,
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That’s a lot of posts. I don’t have a strong opinion either way, but that bot would totally take over the community if it started tagging everything here. Is that really what everyone wants?

I was picturing something more like “This week’s ladder” and posts for matches.

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