[HN Gopher] Teletext Bad Apple
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       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
        
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