Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
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You got advertising in my data scraping app!
How is that shit different from Discord shitty server exclusive emojis. This crap is so… exhausting
Also, what is that… what appears to be a baseball, but green with red stitching?
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!)
Consume the ads like a good corpo-drone. Lobby the unicode consortium to have your emoji added/removed because you have no control over your computer; you have no property. Drone does what the computer says to do. Consume ads. Beep bop.
Razer logo
It’s about a hunnert billionaires banding together…c’mon we can take 'em all down! Let’s Robin Hood all those motherfuckers!
All right, you go first.
Second. Someone did the United Healthcare guy already.
Fucking disgusting, really. Piece of shit app.
⚽ 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:
Gaelic footballs look similar to that
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
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!
That’s cooled it’s named after the Telstar satellite. There’s a high school in Maine that’s also named after the satellite.
Man, until I read the text, I thought this was about these old 45 record inserts.
What is the point of these, and their shape
The shape allows the the tabs to push in slightly and snap into the 7”. I’ve heard them called ‘spiders’ :)
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.
Does the audio just sound slowed down or is there something else
The different playback speed also allows more music to be squeezed onto each side of the disc (albeit at a slightly lower quality).
Most record players have an adjustable speed and can do 33.3 or 45 rpm and some can do the old 78s. There were also other speeds but they were mostly used for other applications. Otherwise yes, it would sound slow compared to an LP.
I suddenly want a software lp
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.
I mean those cassettes are what gave me the idea :3
Some old computer magazines in the 8 bit era occasionally distributed software on flexidiscs. They were also called Floppy ROMs.
Just to add to this, many 45s came with the same small hole as LPs and 12" singles. The big hole was there for 45s that were to be used in jukeboxes, I think.
many 45s
All 45s. You punched the hole out yourself if you wanted to use it in a jukebox.
I see, thank you.
Well there’s your problem. You’re using messenger and emojis.
I can’t find that shit on Signal 🤷♂️
the problem arrives when you try to switch your friends over… :(
Why are you using meta WhatsApp? The fuck?
Probably because “Network effect”. Many places whatsapp is basically the texting app and you are fucking forced to use it
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.
I live in one of those places. It does make it hard, but someone has to decide not to fund meta, so I put my foot down and won’t do it. It isn’t easy, but I manage.
That’s legit. I have a burner account that is only used for things I absolutely have to, like my utility bills.
To communicate with people who aren’t tech nerds, i.e. majority of the population.
I switched off an my parents, grandparents and siblings all switched to signal with me.
I’m not saying everyone can or will, but it may be easier that we think.I did the same. Took a while but the whole family was on board.
Now on to convince multiple circles of friends and every new person I meet…
Good for you :)
Mine tried Signal and then vehemently returned to WhatsApp…
Seriously this. Fuck Meta and shame on OP. There are much less evil VoIP apps available.
Okay, come back to us when you figure out how to convince my entire family to download Signal or Telegram (which are seen as shady anyway) just because one person they know wants them to.
It’s not realistic.
delete the apps
if your family need you they’ll find you
I have lost friends this way lmao
I don’t miss the ones I lost
I hope you have many
Tell them what they are directly funding, and take a stand.
How would you people have ever got by in the past, lol.
Because 3 billion other people do.
3 billion sources of revenue for meta, harvesting all that data, training AI, selling ads!
So they can create data centers, push AI, influence politics, and in general have one person live a billionairs lifestyle.
I think you just gave me 3 billion reasons NOT to use it. Are you going to continue to fund those things?
be the change
Greetings from most EU countries.
Why is there a lime green baseball?
It’s a softie for the ladies
Kind of weird how the ladies ball is bigger. We have smaller hands. Ours should be smaller.
easier to hit cause clearly women have to be bad at sports
Genuinely why would you have a problem with this? It’s just an extra emoji, as far as advertising goes that’s not that bad
Technically it’s not even an emoji
Emojis are a standard defined by Unicode Consortium
By FIFA, the people who gave Trump a peace prize? Yeah, why would that be annoying?
As someone that knows nothing about sports what an I even looking at here and why are people upset about it? All I see are balls and ball accessories.
Hank Soccer here
FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
The RGB one with the “snakes” on it?
Yes
