Post #891486 · Elektrine

@enfys@wetdry.world 2025-02-09 11:36

RE: https://wetdry.world/@enfys/113968670614531724 Quite a few of you are wondering how Fedi via Teletext/FediText/Teletextodon works, so here goes: It's running off of a Raspberry Pi with composite video output. Every 30-60 seconds I use Mastodon.py to grab the most recent toot on my timeline, the only data I need from this is the author, content and time it was posted. The actual toot text content I get back is HTML so I remove the tags so it's just text and have to sanitize the content for any characters that are not supported. I then use this data to construct a teletext page (TTI format), I wrap the text to a maximum of 38 characters per line (it would be 40 but there is room for control characters at the start for colour and double height), using double height text as default and if the toot is longer than what I can fit onto the display then it swaps to doing single height characters instead. The final page is then thrown into a teletext signal injector, which then I can view on my TV by pressing the teletext button on my remote control. :3 Sadly no support for any user input or images yet, it's mostly just a fun gimmick.

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@chkdsk@second.demae.party 2025-02-08 14:15

@enfys@wetdry.world they finally made fedi for dutch people

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@penguin86@social.ichibi.eu 2025-02-08 14:26

@enfys@wetdry.world Nice! How did you interface it?

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@Cosmix@mastodon.art 2025-02-08 14:28

@enfys@wetdry.world yes! Gods I miss teletext. >~<

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@beecycling@romancelandia.club 2025-02-08 14:43

@enfys@wetdry.world A match made in heaven. Man, I loved Teletext.

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@tsukkitsune@is.nota.live 2025-02-08 14:44

@enfys@wetdry.world CEEFAX FOREVER!

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@Leafy_Greens@mastodon.social 2025-02-08 14:55

@enfys@wetdry.world Teletoots!

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@miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi 2025-02-08 15:01

@enfys@wetdry.world :o

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@maddler@mastodon.ie 2025-02-08 15:01

@enfys@wetdry.world I feel young again!!!

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@eaterofsnacks@tilde.zone 2025-02-08 15:14

@enfys@wetdry.world But...but how?

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@HRCH@mastodon.me.uk 2025-02-08 15:16

@enfys@wetdry.world I worked in insurance during the late 80s, buying fax machines (for ££££s). Our brokers were concerned at the loss of certainty; the handshake at both ends, as it were.

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@morihofi@furry.engineer 2025-02-08 15:18

@enfys@wetdry.world want that

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@DrEdBridges@toot.wales 2025-02-08 15:21

@enfys@wetdry.world Amazing. With football league tables available and now potentially Mastodon too, the future is looking brighter by the day.

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@sterophonick@wetdry.world 2025-02-08 15:28

@enfys@wetdry.world WHAAAAAAAAHAHA

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@luke@social.sdfeu.org 2025-02-08 15:41

@enfys@wetdry.world that is amazing

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@lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza 2025-02-08 15:50

@enfys@wetdry.world, alt text's wrong – says 2 Aug, not 8 Feb.

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@Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space 2025-02-08 15:59

@enfys@wetdry.world ... but ... how?! 🤔 p.s.: nice hack! 👍 📺

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@karb@bark.lgbt 2025-02-08 16:00

@enfys@wetdry.world How? :neofox_surprised:

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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2025-02-08 16:02

@enfys@wetdry.world BBC Micro Mode 7 probably was the best feature for use today 😉

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@CatsWhoCode@twoot.site 2025-02-08 16:06

@enfys@wetdry.world WHOA!! So cool. Looks similar to how it looks on Lynx.

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@SebiPanther@mastodon.social 2025-02-08 16:22

@enfys@wetdry.world Deployment when and where?

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@JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com 2025-02-08 16:25

@enfys@wetdry.world @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party It’s sure to catch on!

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@Yza@plush.city 2025-02-08 16:34

@enfys@wetdry.world teletext was so magical to me when i was a kid. that's so funny to think back on. i take the internet for granted now

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@Nikkileah@mendeddrum.org 2025-02-08 16:37

@enfys@wetdry.world so cool!!

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@pierrenick@hachyderm.io 2025-02-08 16:54

@enfys@wetdry.world I love this so much!

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@daedalean@mastodon.social 2025-02-08 17:11

@enfys@wetdry.world awesome.

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@tunubesecamirio@masto.es 2025-02-08 17:12

@enfys@wetdry.world Tell more!!!

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@Aphrodite@chaos.social 2025-02-08 17:22

@enfys@wetdry.world confuse the americans with this one trick

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@urbautz@wehavecookies.social 2025-02-08 17:31

@enfys@wetdry.world Germany here. I want my Fedi's via fax machine!

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@casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de 2025-02-08 17:32

@enfys@wetdry.world You jnow German Teletext services were doing that with Twitter for years now. You tweet somtghing under a special hashtag and they'll curate it and put it onto a special "newsflash" page.

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@leffe@social.linux.pizza 2025-02-08 17:34

@enfys@wetdry.world Swedish public service TV still supports teletext and I use it daily to catch up on the day's headlines, via the antenna on the roof. Back in the 70's I bought a DIY kit to make a home terminal connected to a 300 baud acoustic modem for school. It used a teletext chip and simply hooked up to my TV. So cool. #teletext #texttv #Sweden

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@kycm_ancy@fandom.ink 2025-02-08 17:49

@enfys@wetdry.world you're a genius

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@fabiosantoscode@mastodon.social 2025-02-08 17:53

@enfys@wetdry.world I have so many questions but I'm so afraid to ask all of them! Nicely done 👍👍

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@flasche_chris@social.tchncs.de 2025-02-08 17:53

@enfys@wetdry.world That's sooo fckn cool, I love it ❤️

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@craignicol@glasgow.social 2025-02-08 18:44

@enfys@wetdry.world my brain is both celebrating and refusing to accept it. That's awesome