{"id":794,"date":"2021-09-09T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T06:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.nefarius.at\/?page_id=794"},"modified":"2023-12-21T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:08:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nefarius.at\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"794\" class=\"elementor elementor-794\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d20f471 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d20f471\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e195816\" data-id=\"e195816\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-837794d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"837794d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-514abc9\" data-id=\"514abc9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4fb8abd elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4fb8abd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/nefarius.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-930\" alt=\"Nefarius | Benjamin H\u00f6glinger-Stelzer\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nefarius.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile.jpg 696w, https:\/\/nefarius.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/nefarius.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-230x280.jpg 230w, https:\/\/nefarius.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-350x425.jpg 350w, https:\/\/nefarius.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-480x583.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1a4229f\" data-id=\"1a4229f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27f00dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27f00dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Hi, I am Benjamin &#8220;Nefarius&#8221; H\u00f6glinger-Stelzer.<\/p><p>I have been working in IT since 2011 and since then never stopped learning and exploring. Before I became a programmer, I was a mere gamer.<\/p><p>Back in the days I was looking for a solution to play my favorite emulators with dated controllers. 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aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2081\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Work Experience<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2081\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2081\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p>I&#8217;ve worked for various IT companies in Upper Austria taking care of a broad range of responsibilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Development of middleware, scripts, container applications<\/li>\n<li>Software rollout, incident management and updates<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of cloud native platforms (Kubernetes, Docker EE, Rancher, Read Hat OpenShift)<\/li>\n<li>Database administration, monitoring, backup and restore<\/li>\n<li>Design, installation and maintenance of servers, network infrastructure and end-user workstations<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" 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My most popular ones include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nefarius\/ScpToolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ScpToolkit<\/strong><\/a>: Discontinued yet popular fork and successor of the XInput Wrapper for DS3 and Play.com USB Dual DS2 Controller project originating on the PCSX2 forums. 4.2 million downloads.<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.nefarius.at\/projects\/ViGEm\/\">Gamepad Emulation<\/a><\/b>: Projects devoted to USB input device emulation and game peripherals reverse engineering. At its core the Virtual Gamepad Emulation Bus Driver and libraries provide an easy-to-use SDK for any developer to spawn and manipulate popular software-only gaming input peripherals on the Windows platform. Over 4 million downloads so far.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nefarius\/Indicium-Supra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Indicium-Supra<\/strong><\/a>: API-Hooking and rendering framework for DirectX-based games. A self-contained, low dependency solution to create injectable DLLs which automatically detect a games main render pipeline and fire a simple set of callbacks before and after the native API gets invoked. Allows for creation of custom overlays or capturing the backbuffer content frame by frame.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ViGEm\/DsHidMini\"><strong>DsHidMini<\/strong><\/a>: user-mode driver for Microsoft Windows to bring extraordinarily versatile support fot the Sony DualShock 3 to the platform. After ScpToolkit this successor is smaller, faster and easier to install than anything before. Free and open-source software of course!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ViGEm\/BthPS3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BthPS3:<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;PlayStation(R) 3 peripherals unofficial bluetooth drivers. These drivers allow popular PlayStation(R) 3 gaming peripherals (SIXAXIS\/DualShock 3, PS Move Navigation &amp; Motion Controllers) to connect to Windows via Bluetooth without losing any standard functionality.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nefarius\/Injector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Injector:<\/a><\/strong> DLL injection\/ejection command-line utility. Simple one-file binary to script injecting one or more DLLs into a target process identified either by process ID, process name or window title. Uses the popular CreateRemoteThread method.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ViGEm\/HidHide\"><strong>HidHide<\/strong><\/a>: HidHide is an &#8220;input device firewall&#8221; inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ViGEm\/HidGuardian\">HidGuardian<\/a> but designed and written from scratch. 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