Whatsapp Puns

Important message from Dr David Lye, Director of Infectious Disease Research @NCID: Our current status is likely more dangerous than just before circuit breaker last year. 2020 was bad because of the huge outbreak in dormitories among migrant workers which could be contained by locking down albeit with a lot of resources. The many cases with no linkage now suggest the spread to community from the Changi Airport outbreak may be wide and far. 40-50% of infected have no symptoms and can be equally infectious. 10% can get sick enough to need oxygen. Yes we have effective vaccines and treatment, and expanded testing capacity but against us is the new mutant strains that infected TTSH and Changi Airport staff despite masks and vaccination. This is serious. We should all do much more beyond what government dictates. (1) Stay home (2) Avoid crowded places (3) Avoid big groups (4) Form your small social bubble who must be committed to the bubble not to socialise beyond the bubble; for many this is your immediate family (5) Wear mask over mouth and nose including walking in parks (6) Get vaccinated, the TTSH outbreak shows not enough vulnerable old people get vaccinated If you want to keep your family safe, you need to listen and do the above. If a country is overwhelmed like India, many will die including children and young people. Sick people cannot get a bed and dead bodies cannot get cremated or buried. My colleagues and I do not want to see you in NCID or any of the public hospitals. Please feel free to share by copying into your own social media wall or WhatsApp groups.

Edit: ST latest report

After 4+ years of continuous work on Watusi 2, I decided to release Watusi 3 with many new features that I'm hoping you guys will like. More new features are coming soon!

So, what's new in Watusi 3?

New Features

• Added a new statuses bar to display all your contacts current statuses on top of the chats list
• Added option to view and display your contacts statuses on top of their profile pictures in chats list
• Created Status Archive which will save all your uploaded statuses and their viewers
• Added option to filter/sort the chats list, available in the new Chats List Add-ons section
• Added option to manage WhatsApp tabs from which you can hide any tab or add custom ones like Favorites and Groups. (Removed Replace Camera Tab feature since it can now be done using this new feature)
• Added new section to import/download custom tones to be used for your contacts notifications from their contact info page
• Added new “Chat Details” section inside contact and group info pages to get more details and analytics about the chat
• Added a new section for Contacts Spoofing which allows you to hide or use a custom profile picture for your contact as well as choosing a different name inside WhatsApp
• Re-write Auto Reply section with many new features and the option to get the message from a web request
• Added option to automatically generate multiple broadcast lists from your WhatsApp contacts
• Added option to disable Delivery Receipts for specific contacts only just like read receipts. (You would still have a delay in messages if you have a lot of pending messages waiting to be marked as delivered on the server)
• Added option to hide all profile pictures from chats list (available in User Interface section)
• Added option to hide WhatsApp Web section from settings (available in User Interface section)

New Share Sheet Actions

• Added option to send photos & videos as documents which will allow you to send them in full quality
• Added option to take a long screenshot for a chat (Available in share sheet actions)

Improvements

• Added whitelist option to Statuses’ Disable Mark Viewed feature to allow sending viewed receipts for certain contacts
• Added new option to mute notifications from chats locked in the archive using “Archive Lock” feature
• Audio bar will now show a progress bar of the currently playing audio
• Swipe for Contact Info will now add a new button instead of replacing the Unread button
• Added haptic feedback on status c

Are most people in your country using WhatsApp? I know there was a lot of controversy regarding their new policies lately and I’ve been reluctant to update my app but I see a lot of people still using it.

As we approach the renewed date for users to accept WhatsApps updated Terms of Service, it is a good time to remind your friends, family, associates, to use more privacy focused platforms. Hopefully we see a second wave of user influx to Signal and other more privacy focused platforms.

Ich arbeite in einem Impfzentrum in einer deutschen 150 000 Einwohner Stadt. Unser Personal wird in einer WhatsApp-Gruppe organisiert, und das ganze ist total verboten.

In dieser Gruppe kommt täglich eine Nachricht, ob am nächsten Tag der Impfstoff ausreichend vorhanden sein wird, und ob demnach alle eingeteilten Teams zur Arbeit kommen müssen. Außerdem wird nach Ersatz bei Krankheiten gesucht, und danach der aktualisierte Dienstplan mit Namen, Arbeitszeiten und Qualifikationen als PDF in die Gruppe geschickt. Es geht also um allerhöchst sensible Daten! Das ganze wurde anfangs per Mail geregelt, weil aber jeden Tag mehrere Mails kamen, die dann irgendwann im Spam-Ordner gelandet sind, ist man unangekündigt auf eine WhatsApp-Gruppe umgestiegen. In Fortbildungen lernt man regelmäßig, dass eine Kommunikation über WhatsApp absolut unzulässig ist.

Warum das ganze verboten ist hier kurz mal erklärt: Das betriebliche, interne darf nicht über WhatsApp kommuniziert werden, damit verstößt man gegen die DS-GVO, die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung. Warum? Weil WhatsApp alle seine Daten in die USA und an Facebook übermittelt. Dazu gehören das Auslesen der Kontakte und andere personenbezogene Daten. Als Quelle die Datenschutzbeauftragte von Niedersachsen zu genau diesem Thema.

Man kann dagegen klagen, dass die Firma WhatsApp für solche Zwecke nutzt. Obwohl das wahrscheinlich ziemlich deutsch ist: ich verklage doch nicht meinen Arbeitgeber, wer tut das schon. Ich brauche schließlich meine Arbeit. Zu Corona-Zeiten mehr als zuvor. Ich halte das ganze eher für nervig, weil sich auf WhatsApp Arbeit und privates jetzt so vermischt. Das rechtliche betrifft mich ja nicht, aber wie kann man das als Firma ernsthaft für in Ordnung halten?

Habt ihr WhatsApp für die Arbeit, würdet ihr das so zulassen? Was denkt ihr über das Thema? Nutzt ihr WhatsApp für Dinge wie Apothekenbestellung oder Friseurtermin? Einige Firmen bieten das ja auch an.

It’s my first day again. I live alone and it’s just too easy to eat like a pig every day. Looking for some friends to keep accountable :) I’m 24F btw! 153lb want to be around 115ish.

WhatsApp didn't start the year on a very good note as it almost instantly entangled itself in a controversy when it rolled out a new privacy policy. While the company had to push back the initial deadline to May 15, a new report suggests WhatsApp is scrapping the deadline altogether, but not without severe consequences for those who don't agree to the new policy.

The Press Trust of India reported that the Facebook-owned messaging service won't delete accounts of those individuals who do not accept the new privacy policy on May 15. However, the same source also confirms that users will be sent reminders about accepting over the next "several weeks."

>WhatsApp scraps May 15 deadline for accepting privacy policy, says no accounts will be deleted if terms not accepted by users
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 7, 2021

And in a statement given to Android Central, WhatsApp has confirmed that while it won't terminate accounts immediately, users who don't accept the new terms will have only "limited account functionality" available to them until they do. In the short term, that means losing access to your chat list, but you will still be able to see and respond to notifications as well as answer voice and video calls. However, after a few weeks of that, WhatsApp will then switch off all incoming notifications and calls for your account, effectively rendering it useless.

The decision not to fully enforce the deadline seems to be in reaction to the stern stance that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) in India took against the company. Earlier this year, the ministry filed a counter-affidavit in the high court to prevent WhatsApp from going ahead with the privacy policy update.

It's important to note that the privacy policy is not being rolled back in any way, and there doesn't seem to be a