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Jamie Nemeth

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🎓 Physicist turned software developer 🎻 Fiddle/violin · 📺 Teletext · 🖖Trekkie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pontardawe, Wales 🌍 www.jamienemeth.co.uk 🔗 linktr.ee/jamienemeth Teletext Labeler: @teletextlabeler.bsky.social

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · Oct 18

I guess it's time for a reintroduction!

Software developer from South Wales. Used to be a physicist, always will be one at heart. Got a PhD and everything.

Also a musician (violin/fiddle).

Recently dived into the Teletext enthusiast world, and fused that with Trek on my very own Teletext service!

Me in PhD graduation cap and gown (rounded padded black cap with white tassle, red gown with silver inlay, purple shirt and brown striped tie. I'm standing in front of the Guildhall building in Swansea (concrete blocky building with a prominent clock tower visible). Trees and bushes behind me, and a green lamp-post behind my left shoulder.

Me playing a violin into a condenser microphone (in a shock mount on a boom arm) with my eyes closed, wearing headphones, in front of a green screen. I'm wearing a Stornoway band T-shirt with a drawing of a person in a zorb (giant inflatable ball that a person can fit inside and roll around a field in), with the text 'Zorbing' (the name of the corresponding Stornoway single).

Teletext page on TrekkieText, displayed on an LCD TV. Bamber Boozler (the quiz master from Bamboozle) in a red Star Trek uniform (TNG-era). Speech bubble.

Heading: Starfleet Academy

Text reads: Commandant Boozler has an opening for a cadet. But do you know your Starfleet history as well as you think you do?

Speech bubble reads: Hopefully you've been revising the video records of notable missions? This quiz will be a breeze if so!

PRESS THE RED BUTTON ON YOUR CONTROL PAD TO BEGIN!

More from the Starfleet historical database! Find the index on p700

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 1d

Escargot are trying to bring that back, too. I haven't gotten around to trying that yet, but you're right, that would be peak!

I'm also in disbelief that the official servers for the original ICQ only shut down in June last year 😮

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 1d

It's not that I want to live in the 90s permanently. I just love the idea of being able to walk through a door, and pretend, for ten minutes, an hour, an afternoon.

Closest thing I can get to building a time machine, especially as it'd all still work, albeit with some modern-day adaptations.

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 1d

A CRT in the corner, a computer desk with CRT monitor and a period-appropriate PC in another corner, with dial-up internet access (locally hosted), my games and programs similar to how they used to be, and as I say, MSN / Windows Live Messenger actually online in 2025.

😊

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 1d

I guess this is another element I can add to what I'm calling my "90s simulator".

In different parts of the house, I have an analogue of analogue TV (present day BBC/ITV/4/5 in letterboxed SD) with modern-day teletext, a dial-up internet server, and now MSN.

One day, I want this all in one room 😊

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 2d

Relationship status: I just reinstalled Windows Live Messenger.

I'M BACK, BABY!

escargot.chat?r=jamazzuk

Screenshot of Windows Live Messenger, with the display name 'jamazzuk@escargot.chat'. There are no contacts visible (as it's a fresh install). Custom banners for Escargot news and updates.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 2d

There is something on their news page about Windows 11. Not sure if they've fixed it without needing an additional patch, since then?

escargot.chat/news/#:~:tex...

Latest News | Escargot | MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger

escargot.chat

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on Windows 10, using the Escargot-patched WLM '09 from their website. Working fine so far, as far as I can tell.

It did take me a few hours to get the activation email after signup.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 2d

I've known about Escargot for years, but it took me until today to finally decide to take the plunge.

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 2d

Relationship status: I just reinstalled Windows Live Messenger.

I'M BACK, BABY!

escargot.chat?r=jamazzuk

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 3d

Accidentally bought some single-use microSD cards!

I've usually been pretty good at not falling foul of the "buy cheap, buy twice" mantra, but not this time.

When the first card failed, I thought it was just bad luck, but when the second hard-failed as well, after only a few minutes of use...😢

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

It's also a source of constant amazement/dismay, that when certain people see an own goal looming on the horizon, their first thought isn't to desperately slow down and think about their next move, but to exclaim "ooh, a chance to score a goal, yay!" and aim straight for the back of the net...

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

Him posting a video like this - in and of itself, with no additional context - is an automatic red flag.

So, from the perspective of someone who's still trying to work out what's going on, and amenable to giving benefit of doubt where due - a video like this starts haemorrhaging their credibility.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

So, from what I can tell, there's someone called Moses Norton, who authored a book about SNES gaming - published by Bitmap Books - and he made silly insults in 2022 that resurfaced. In isolation, they read to me as Top-Gear-esque "humour", but others have seen them as part of a problematic pattern.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

Explain it to me like I'm joining at a random point in Series 6, because that's what it always feels like to me when these social media explosions happen.

"Wait, who is this character, and what's the premise?"

"I feel like I'm missing something major that must have happened in, like, Season 3..."

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

I was just going to let it pass me by completely, but then Special Effect got mentioned (as the charity chosen to donate royalties to after the furore caused by a book author), so now I'm invested in doing the hours of research that it'll take me to catch up with what on earth is going on here...

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

I remember having to say this on TwiXter, but now I'm having to say it on Bluesky.

Please keep in mind, when you're making commentary on events, that what might seem like huge news with plenty of obvious context to you, could be a complete unknown to others.

This time, it's the Bitmap Books thing.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe I should respond with an offer that's lower than my previous counter-offer, to continue the pattern? 🤣

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

That's a new one...

- eBay seller makes an offer

- I make a lower counter-offer

- eBay seller makes a counter-counter-offer that's higher than their original offer

🤔

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

There's also an app called Telescore that people are talking about a lot at the moment: football scores in the style of teletext (but more matching a phone screen's real estate and aspect ratio).

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 4d

nmsceefax.co.uk#id=WyJubXMtY...

NMS Ceefax

An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.

nmsceefax.co.uk

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not live *now*...but saying it now as tomorrow I'll likely be prepping in a panic until the last second, then go straight from prep to live with no advance warning!

My aim is 3pm, but might be earlier.

#ChunkyFringe #Teletext

ℹ️ arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/index.html
📺 twitch.tv/jamienemeth

Illuminated pegboard with the text "Chunky Fringe 2025, live now on twitch.tv/jamienemeth", on a fold-out table with PC monitors and the corner of a mixing desk visible behind it.

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 8d

And then there were three!

They won't all necessarily be on the same tripod at #ChunkyFringe, but my OBSBOT Tiny 4K impressed me so much at #Teletext50 last year, that I decided I wanted two for the next event...and then I went a bit overboard...

Latest info: www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

Three OBSBOT PTZ (pan tilt zoom) webcams attached to a tripod bar.

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 9d

I'm getting XLR to jack socket adapters FedExed to me, by Friday in theory, in time for Saturday.

If they don't get here, it's not a disaster, I'll battle on: they *do* work on the line input, just really quietly.

My setup will work perfectly by the time we get to Block Party 2026! 🤣

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 9d

Just learned why my new mics were so quiet last year at #Teletext50...

The loudest background noise was still air con, but I also had hiss from cranking the channel gain and volume up full.

Turns out - despite the 1/4" jack - they're mic level, not line level.

Even says it clearly in the manual 🤣

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 9d

Successfully prevented myself from sidetracking myself, and completed audio capture tests for #ChunkyFringe!

Full camera dry run next, and OBS scene setup...but food first.

Keep an eye on my #Twitch channel on the afternoon of Saturday 4th October:
twitch.tv/jamienemeth

#Teletext #Live #Stream

Three PC monitors, a keyboard with trackpad, a small mixing desk, and four wireless microphones on a folding table, with the PC under the table.

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 9d

Well my other posts don't seem to have worked, so I've decided to try superliminal advertising to get people to create some #TeletextArt for Chunky Fringe.

blockparty.zxnet.co.uk

Teletext rendition of the Navy officer from the Simpsons episode "New Kids on the Blecch" shouting "Hey you! Make a Chunkytext page" out of the window.

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