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Thank you very much, that’s very kind! 😊

I didn’t know I could get the cert from elsewhere, I appreciate the heads up; my experience lies mainly in networking and DNS, rather than software. I’ll open that possibility back up, then. It’d be a first for me, and I’m getting a real taste for firsts with this project!

I’m not taking anyone’s money, though, even Windows users (right now, that includes me… I’m working on it lol). I’m doing this purely for the love of the game!

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airbreather@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Since you’re still a Windows user at least for now, and assuming that you’re planning on continuing to be open-source, I can recommend Certum for this. shop.certum.eu/open-source-code-signing.html

I gave up trying to initialize the USB thingy using Linux (I tried regular Arch [btw] and an Ubuntu distrobox IIRC), but once I got through the initial steps using Windows, I was able to sign ongoing builds with Linux just fine. It took a LOT of trial and error since there seem to be very few people who simultaneously

pathologically dislike using Windows regularly

still want to make it easier for people on Windows to minimize Windows Defender complaints when running software that they build

have the motivation and resolve to send a lot of PII to one of a handful of companies whose longtime business model is based around reputation and trust in order to get a usable certificate

are stubborn enough to go out of their way to still figure out how to do a subset of this stuff on Linux

are capable of actually succeeding at that, and

are willing to show how they did it in a way that should be reasonably easy enough to understand and adapt to your situation

I didn’t renew after my first year - I switched from publishing an executable to publishing it on the web, so I no longer had a need for it - so I don’t know how things have changed (if at all). Most of my information came from eventually stumbling upon this wiki page for a Ruby-based tool where they figured out the last bits I needed to get it to work.

It also has instructions for initializing the USB thingy on Linux too, so if I were to renew, I’d give that a fair shot… but seeing “icedtea” and a link to a web application that no longer resolves, I’d still only recommend it if you can use a Windows machine once a year.
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- obelisk_complex@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This is super helpful (and I see that “btw”, you got a smoke with that one (⁠☞ﾟ⁠ヮﾟ⁠)⁠☞). Thank you for the heads up and ask this detailed information! I’m excited to check out Certum.
  
  there seem to be very few people who simultaneously - pathologically dislike using Windows regularly - still want to make it easier for people on Windows to minimize Windows Defender complaints when running software that they build
  
  Describes me to a T 😅 My career is rooted in support, so my pathologies include trying to make things end-user easy.
  
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RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I envy you so much, I used to love programming. Enjoy the process and the firsts!

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victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Good luck with your eventual transition to Linux! Check in with Lemmy communities if you want help with anything!

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