today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 10, 2025

Retro

• Emulation

  • HowTo Geek ☛ FreeDOS vs. DOSBox: Which Is Best for Running MS-DOS Apps?

    If you want to run old MS-DOS programs on a modern system, the two best ways to do so are FreeDOS and DOSBox. Which is the better pick, though, and does it matter what you’ll use it for?

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • HowTo Geek ☛ This Raspberry Pi Handheld Hack Uses a Real BlackBerry Keyboard

      The Raspberry Pi is a small, single-board computer that has been hacked into nearly any type of device you can imagine. But what if you could run Linux on a Pi in the form factor of a BlackBerry smartphone? Someone did just that.

      This “Blackberry Pi” handheld was created by Taylor Hay, and it is not BlackBerry in name only. Taylor used a modified USB keypad that incorporates real BlackBerry parts. It is a BlackBerry Q10 keyboard, a BlackBerry 9900 trackpad, and 3D-printed navigation keys.

      Along with the keypad, the Blackberry Pi is made up of a 4-inch IPS display with 720 x 720 resolution, 10,000mah of batteries harvested from a power bank, and the Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM. There is even a small display on the bottom edge of the device that shows the battery percentage. Everything is packed inside a custom 3D-printed case with four accessible USB-A ports, an ethernet port, and a USB-C port for charging.

• Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

  • The Record ☛ Home appliance company Presto says cyberattack causing delivery delays

    National Presto Industries — the company behind the Presto brand of home appliances — filed notices with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday evening warning that it is experiencing a system outage caused by a cybersecurity incident that began on March 1.

  • Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

    • The Register UK ☛ Malicious GitHub repositories linked to nearly 1M infections

      GitHub hosted a first-stage payload that installed code that dropped two other payloads. One gathered system configuration info such as data on memory size, graphics capabilities, screen resolution, the operating system present, and user paths.