Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer

Dwarf software dev. Hacking apart one bug at a time. Expect rants and nonsense.

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[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

Behold! I have a Mastodon account now 😊 I plan to use it strictly to announce what's going on around my software ecosystem, no rants or other nonsense 🤞 https://t.co/P9ub3XHHDi

[OSR @OSRDrivers]

After 30+ years of signing windows drivers, we have been locked out of driver signing like many other companies.

In a word, the disrespect and disregard with which MSFT is treating IHVs and ISVs is stunning.

Don’t let anyone tell you it’s because we didn’t read our emails or submit the right verification paperwork. Cuz we did all that back in October.

And this month, we were suddenly and without any warning locked out.

Support said they’d “do their best” to let us know “within 90 days” if we’re good enough to get back on.

In the meantime, many thousands of desktops and instruments are not being updated, cuz we can’t sign drivers.

Awesome job, Microsoft. Thanks.

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@shanselman Discovered this towards the end of last year (might have been November) by complete accident; no email whatsoever. Only saw it when I logged in to sign a driver and couldn't.

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@shanselman @windscribecom @Microsoft You have not. I also discovered this new restriction by complete accident. Thankfully I logged in last year and that's when I got prompted to verify again. Not a single email for this insanely important topic in my inbox.

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@AzureSupport no clue who is responsible for the Partner Portal but might as well give it a try...

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@Azure @msdev are there any humans left in Redmond? The Hardware section in the Partner Portal is down for hours now and not a single support option works, it all loops back to A.I. BS.

[Omar 🍋 @ocornut]

(
screenshots credits:
- Nefarius™ vīcĭus updater agent https://t.co/Cx9sCyM7tf
- Assassin's Creed Mirage by @Ubisoft
- Engine/Editor/Runtime for VR game "Fear of Falling https://t.co/fmAsCyP1x6
- whitebox DAW by https://t.co/LvkK21FptO https://t.co/RLGAx3sYua
)

[Omar 🍋 @ocornut]

dear imgui 1.90.9 released!
https://t.co/CgCTv95g4C
- fixes for drag & drop w/ extern source, disabled mode, sub-menu size issues w/ multi-viewports & more
- resize from borders always enabled.
- playing catch with SDL3 wip API.
- drags wrap-around values.
& more

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@Nielk1 @moe_sharawi @HuangRaymo85601 @discord Time for our own Matrix server.

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@Nielk1 @HuangRaymo85601 @discord Guess it's on us again once more to decipher the last few secrets the DS holds, ey? 😉

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@TeamBlackSeraph @carygolomb @RetroGameCorps @RetroHandhelds My pleasure, keep on creating amazing software!

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@Ceasepool Aye, you're very welcome 😃

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@reduzio Is this bait so you can block me? 😜

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

Hey @leszekpomian absolutely love WPF-UI and am following the progress of the v3 previews closely, great job and stay that way 😃

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@GrapheneOS Indeed, thanks!

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@iVRy_VR *waves hesitantly*

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@gamingatdenuvo The only danger I see is DRM being responsible for throwing a huge wrench into game preservation... What a delusional, dystopian Tweet, shame...

[Benjamin "Nefarius" Höglinger-Stelzer @NefariusMaximus]

@RealSexyCyborg What kind of content do they produce? Do they all perform songs? The performances appear to look similar, is demand that high? Also aren't their neighbour streamers distracting and might be audible on stream despite the pro gear? Really interesting, thx for reading!