[HN Gopher] Teletext Bad Apple ___________________________________________________________________ Teletext Bad Apple Author : bemmu Score : 35 points Date : 2020-08-22 11:16 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (bitshifters.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (bitshifters.github.io) | sdfhbdf wrote: | Kind of off topic: Judging by the title it's another one of these | write-ups on how AAPL is the worst anti-competititve monopoly | that is using its position to do bad things. Thankfully it's | something completely unrelated. | uxp100 wrote: | Unless you're familiar with Bad Apple, that is. Sort of a meme, | not exactly sure why, I guess the visuals, as far as the song | goes I think it's one of the lesser Touhou tracks. | q3k wrote: | At some point the video became the standard thing to show on | weird displays. We mostly have Marcan to thank for that [1], | I think. | | Kind of like porting Doom to prove that you have code | execution on something that you never were meant to have code | execution in the first place, but instead to prove you can | display full motion video on something that was never meant | to display full motion video. | | [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSL0FDcsVJE | echelon wrote: | I remember seeing OpenLase after I developed a bunch of | laser projector games [1] [2]. I wish I had known about it | back then. Python was a huge bottleneck, and I had to come | up with workarounds for the GIL and other problems. | | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs&t=15s | | [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-jf-ans | nayuki wrote: | Related: https://www.azabani.com/2020/06/29/bad-apple-for- | taskmgr.htm... | q3k wrote: | Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ckCeE_HUs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxWIAjz6S4 | | (ESP32 + Ikea FREKVENS) | alexfoo wrote: | mikefax | aarroyoc wrote: | Very cool! I spent a lot of my youth navigating Teletext. Also | lots of people doesn't seem to realize that Teletext is still | alive and updated daily in some European countries like Spain. | sjmulder wrote: | It's still hugely popular in the Netherlands, but somewhat | ironically mostly viewed through the web or apps. I wrote a | simple command line reader scraping the web version: | https://github.com/sjmulder/nostt ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-08-23 23:00 UTC)