Internet Highlights - 2025-10-31
Last Updated: 2025-10-31 00:00:00 -0500
As part of my mission to find, discover, and expose cool things, I’ve decided to start sharing the cool stuff I have found on the internet once a month with the rest of you. Unfortunately, in October, I had this idea rather late, so the pickings are a mite slim.
Firstly, on the good news front, the Python Software Foundation has given US$1.5M in potential funding on the basis of taking a stand in favour of appropriately equitable DEI programs. This is a really important and pleasing stance to see at a time when everyone is backtracking on what were already lip-service DEI efforts in their organizations just to kowtow to the latest casual racism from the US Government.
On the independent media front, I want to first pull your attention to Homemade Documentaries, a youtube channel by amateur documentarian Jackson Tyler dedicated entirely to videos about the US space program in breathtaking detail. As a space nut, its been very gratifying to have these on as I plugged through my workweek. Space not your thing? How about a homebrew 4-bit CPU?.
Marcpux of FDroid put out an article on why sideloading isn’t real and Google are wrong to try and demonize it, which you are welcome to read this post as an endorsement of. After all, to own a thing is to control what it does. The real word for side-loading software onto a computer you own is “installing”, as in, “I’ll install whatever I damn well please, thank you kindly”. And speaking of software, let’s check out Soatok Dreamseeker’s cryptographic contributions to the security of the Fediverse.
In retro gaming retrospectives, how about an interview between blogger Blake Patterson and Jason Harper, who ported Airball to the Apple IIgs?
Lastly, for your passing-time needs, consider crawling through the banner farm at Improbable Island, which is specifically dedicated to hobby and teeny, tiny business websites and presented in the ultimate in Old Internet Reclamation Technology: 486 by 60 banner images.
That’s all for now - I’ll catch you next time with more!