Rafael Rivera
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Forward engineer by day, reverse engineer by night. Le Cordon Bleu. Windows Dev MVP alum.
Redmond, WA
Joined October 2008
RT @_h0x0d_: Ask Twitter: does anyone still got these "MSDN Community Distribution CD" from 2007-2009 in the archive? please share them, th….
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Great opportunity to pick up some great books from a great publisher!.
Can't make it to Vegas? We got you. DEF CON sale runs 8/7-8/10 - head to our site for 33% off everything with code DEFCON33. Because FOMO shouldn't apply to learning how to hack the planet.
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Trading my skepticism for sugar🍩. WinUI is in good hands.
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IWTSRemoteAppWindowInfoService (heads up @awakecoding), ProcThreadAttributeSmeVectorLength, more hotpatch, RtlGetImageFileMachines, WTS_SESSION_DESKTOP_READY, debugger credential providers, and more. Download the SDK: I sleep now.
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DirectSR (Super Resolution), GUID_DSFX_STANDARD_I3DL2REVERB removed, MFSampleExtension_VideoEncodeSatdMap (see also https://cgit․freedesktop․org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=f6e95a7233d8318d04c12742a1d5a69b743a155f), algos: ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, LMS and XMSS, (cont).
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Virtual Secure Mode, PCR Prediction Framework, HcsResourceTypeSection, dbgeng IsExtensionApi, dbghelp SYMOPT_EX_DISALLOW_NETWORK_PATHS, MSFZ symbols format (perfview/issues/2243), IDebugHostModule6, IDebugHostSymbols3, IDebugHostFunctionIntrospection4, DirectML 6.4 (cont).
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Quick glance, non-exhaustive:.Say hello to NTDDI_WIN11_DT / 0x0A000011,.IKeyCredentialManagerCreateWithWindowStatics, introduction of post-quantum cryptography work, DXGI 1.7, Multi-Tier Memory support, HID_USAGE_CONSUMER_KEYBOARD_BACKLIGHT, GetBestInterfaceEx netioapi (cont).
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Windows Insider team updated their blog post: "The SDK for Build 27913 is now available. We plan to publish SDKs for Canary Channel builds again going forward.". Let's take a peek inside. 🧵 Picture unrelated.
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RT @michaelfrei10: Time Flies is OUT NOW!. Get it on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 or PC & Mac. .
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I'm a sucker for mining, stop motion, and cute things and this has all three. Instant purchase.
Mashina is OUT NOW. Dig and mend the world in this chill stop-motion mining adventure.
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RT @TimSweeneyEpic: Thanks to the verdict, the Epic Games Store for Android will be coming to the Google Play Store! It's already available….
itch.io
itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you...
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Delicious!.
The canned cocktail maker High Noon is warning customers that some of its vodka seltzers were accidentally labeled as Celsius energy drinks.
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UPDATE-Rollout didn't go so well, and it has been rolled back. So this is once again unavailable to all.
UPDATE-Individual developer accounts are now free in India as of July 25th. Slow rollout, can monitor for updates.
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UPDATE-Individual developer accounts are now free in India as of July 25th. Slow rollout, can monitor for updates.
learn.microsoft.com
This page describes what's new in test markets for invividual developers
UPDATE-Microsoft Store regarding free individual developer accounts (that were previously announced for June): "We are very much committed towards making it happen and expected to roll this out soon. Will share a note [. ] as soon as we are ready.".
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When you have to report a serious screw up through MSRC knowing you won't get squat for the effort.
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Brad's real-world dev journals (and collateral posts) always have interesting stories or nuggets of wisdom. Here's a preamble where he mentions having to convert 2009-era Havok resources over to Filmbox to work with modern tooling.
steamcommunity.com
I'm going to be writing a dev journal on this because it's been absolutely fascinating. The game's original visuals were done using Havok, which was absolutely amazing and to this day, I am pretty...
Elemental was the best, most ambitious game we ever tried to make. And it was a disaster. We tried to fit it into 32-bit and that became Elemental: War of Magic but it was still filled with technical issues and a lot of the design was already lost. We shrunk it further and made
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RT @Friedemann_A: Announcing my new solo project: Slots & Daggers! Slot machine meets retro-fantasy crawler 🎰🖤⚔️. Please retweet and wishli….
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Don't ever run scripts that claim to "debloat" windows. Always a bad idea.
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Windows developers: Make sure you test your app w/ administrator protection turned on!. Windows users: Be prepared for more UAC-like dialogs that require re-authentication each time. Might want to start testing password-less options!
blogs.windows.com
Introduction Administrator protection is a new Windows 11 platform security feature that aims to protect the admin users on the device while still allowing them to perform the necessary functions...
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