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The Inside Story Of Aussie Broadband’s Anti-Racism Hold Message
5We’re all familiar with the automated messages that play on loop when you’re stuck on call waiting. They tend to alternate between assurances of how important your time is to them, and information regarding where you can submit your query online and thus free up the queue. Last week my partner and I were sitting…
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Navy’s ‘Women Of Warzone’ Twitch Stream Spammed With Bomb Emotes
The Navy turned off text chat for today’s ‘Women of Warzone’ boot camp Twitch stream, so some viewers took to spamming the chat with bomb and fire emojis instead.
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NBN’s Quietly Dropped The Quote Fee For Upgrading Your Service
Being stuck on an ordinary NBN connection is almost part of the Australian experience these days. Fortunately, there’s always the option to upgrade — but NBN Co has traditionally charged for quotes. Until this week. There doesn’t seem to have been any official announcement. But I’ll certainly take paying $0 for a NBN Technology Choice…
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Twitch Is Cracking Down On Small (But Not Big) Streamers Who Made Channels Before They Turned 13
AverageHarry, a 15 year-old aspiring Twitch streamer from the UK, was in spitting distance of his dream. He’d had a breakout 2020, amassing an audience of nearly 90,000 followers, somewhat ironically off the back of a viral clip in which randos in a hotel lobby made fun of him for streaming. Late last year, he…