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Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
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GraniteM

It allows one to play 45 rpm records, which have a big hole in the middle, on the turntable most people had at home which was designed for 33 ⅓ rpm records, which have a small hole. The shape forms a gentle spring to create tension inside the 45.

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many 45s


All 45s. You punched the hole out yourself if you wanted to use it in a jukebox.

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atomicbocks

Haha, by other applications I meant I remember there being some background music systems for elevators and retail stores and some early dictation systems and such that were slower, like in the 10 rpm range.

However… Software used to come on cassette tapes in the days of the C64 and the ZX Spectrum etc. I don’t see why you couldn’t record the same ‘sound’ onto an LP but I imagine the error rate might be far higher. In fact, I would be shocked if it’s never been tried.

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Zeoic

Thankfully I have managed to get everyone to switch from Messenger to Signal, atleast for talking to me haha. Two other family members being privacy oriented too really helped getting the rest of the family moved over.

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Pechente

In Germany too and I remember how upsetting it was to me from the beginning. There were third party messengers that supported established (at the time) services like ICQ or live messenger but people got onto the hot new thing because it’s so much like SMS.
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bluesheep

I remember starting to use it because texting was pretty expensive and limited at the time. Whatsapp was free (group) texting when on WiFi and still cheaper when on cellular. If texting wasn't so expensive at the time I really don't think whatsapp would've caught on like it did. Now people are just used to it so that's probably why it's still big
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Swedneck

never heard anyone use whatsapp in sweden, everyone is expected to use something that supports sms as a fallback. Usually facebook messenger or whatever the iphone thing is called.

Far as i know the only popular truly separate platform would be something like snapchat or kik or whatever, which is used by teenagers.

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Wispy2891

Because in my country historically the telecom companies are charging 0.30€ per SMS (text) and 2€ per MMS (text with photo).

So WhatsApp when they launched with their "1€/lifetime" offer on the iPhone 3GS they were the right app at the right time and became the de facto replacement for any kind of messaging. It's insane how basically overnight they replaced msn messenger and Skype because it was so convenient (Microsoft never did a smartphone client for msn messenger, only unofficial ones. It was available on dumbphones but it used SMS from the plan to send/receive, nobody used it because you needed to be a millionaire to afford it)

SMS now in my country is only for receiving OTP codes, for the rest is WhatsApp, because still in 2026 the telecoms are still charging 2€ for each MMS sent and nobody wants to risk huge bills. This includes iMessage because if a chat suddenly goes green and you didn't notice, it costs dozens of euro

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Wispy2891

The problem is that everyone assumes you have WhatsApp.

You take clothes to the laundry? The "your order is done" notification is sent via WhatsApp

Any kind of work stuff is also on WhatsApp

You order food delivery? WhatsApp

Amazon started to send delivery notifications via WhatsApp instead of email/sms

And luckily meta is charging businesses 5 cents for messages via API or otherwise even otp codes would be via whatsapp

At least here, being reachable only on signal means being a digital exile

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tyler

Your telecoms are ripping you off. SMS messages 'ride' on the normal connection mechanism to cell phone towers. If your phone connects to a cell phone tower, it already has the space and data to attach an sms and requires nothing else. SMS are 'free' from the infrastructure point of view.

Maybe lobby your representatives to make charging for them illegal and you'll get proper messaging back without selling off your data.

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tyler

data.ipu.org/parliament/IT/IT-LC01/basic/contact-details/

There. 5 seconds to figure out how to email your parliament. That's not an exaggeration.

edit: for good measure here's your eu commission representative contact info too. italy.representation.ec.europa.eu/chi-siamo/commissione-europea-rappresentanza-italia_it

Commissione europea - Rappresentanza in Italia

Contatta la Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione europea.
Rappresentanza in Italia
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calcopiritus

It's a simple concept.

You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.

One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.

The other only has Whatsapp.

They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.

Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it's just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.

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MinnesotaGoddam

oh, my wife and i are [mode of communication] geeks. she knows 3 different sign languages, i know a really rare one, we both speak just enough of like 17 different languages to order food and find the library and bathroom wherever we go. Also in semaphore. Partly because we sing, partly because we like people. The first time you learn a new language it changes the way you think about the world just by giving you new words and structures to place those words. It's beautiful.
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NewNewAugustEast

Don't care. Using meta is directly supporting and funding environmental degradation, AI data centers, misinformation, and yes facism.

Can you see why I am tired of being delicate and senstive about it?

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NewNewAugustEast

No, those are simply facts. So you support that then?

Edit: this is why

All these free services somehow add up to 60 billion in profit every year. And they are expanding, they plan to spend 125-135 billion in AI data centers. They are going to build data centers that will use hundreds of gigawatts in over 10 locations. The power used by each is in the scale of the same as powering all of San Francisco with some of these as 2 to 6 times as much as San Fransisco to put it into perspective.

They are going to use about 1,000 to 2000 acres each, use 1 to 3 million gallons of water a day (one site is asking for a permit to use 23 million gallons a day).

All because of people are using “free” apps.

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vaionko

Let me just cut contact with most my friends, my parents and grandparents. Or have to call them. But still lose our group chats. That'll surely improve my life.

We actually held a poll in our friend group chat to switch to Signal, but the result was that everyone who was not very privacy concious didn't want to move. Because everything else is still on Whatsapp.

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NewNewAugustEast

It isn't about the privacy though. It is about the direct funding of meta. You are supporting meta which means, you support AI, data centers, environmental degradation, political manipulation, and billionaires.

I can't do it. Whatsapp is a non starter. Someone has to take a stand.

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NewNewAugustEast

Usually too busy to care, but enjoy funding a billionaire. Make your life worse because you can't take a stand and are so needy for approval.

Its a little inconvenient but not bad. Gotta start somewhere.

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Impractical_Island

Man, I bet you can't tell me what tf to do boy. Nor can I tell you to investigate. No one fucking investigates. I do one stretch of comments at a time and most people are so chuckle happy they don't even know God's a unified field of consciousness that arose from the supersymmetry of the ever-present, eternal emptiness to then fold in and on Itself across eleven dimensions to form a topological matrix that acts as a monadic nodal communication system, let alone I teach this in my educational (f)art project, but retard over here is "fully convinced," so why don't I mention how much I love feet and leave it at that.

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⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.

The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.

Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:

Adidas Telstar - Wikipedia

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MinnesotaGoddam

That said volleyball to me, but maybe there's a size difference?

Anyways the true sport of champions is sepak tekraw. Give me the damn sepak tekraw ball, dude

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psycotica0

Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!
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dragonlover

In many parts of the world Whatsapp is the dominate communication platform. My landlord sends me my utility bills through WhatsApp, as is my doctor's scheduling platform, and my vet's contact info, etc. It's basically impossible to do things without it.
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Rose

Dammmmn, that's an ugly ball. Let's call it the Curseball Games insted.

(Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one's a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can't say the same for most of the recent ones, it's all a blur to me!)

Adidas Telstar - Wikipedia

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