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Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

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Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#51

Post by FinnKuhn »

throw1234567891 wrote: post #49
FinnKuhn wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why even have a github if you don't actually publish anything there. To suggest that you are trustworthy and associate yourself with open source or source available without having to actually do it? Planning to do it, but being ashamed of your code? I don't know, but I definitely find it strange.

Who is “you” in this case?

The person publishing the software.

Who that is I don't know as it is not displayed anywhere on the website and the the github repo is published by "LazoVelko". Who this is I don't know either. For all I know they are a russian hacker and a future version of this software is going to add an exploit. That is why you should probably think twice about downloading and installing software published by an anonymous person without the source code being available.

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#53

Post by lazov »

FinnKuhn wrote: post #46
okeefe77 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You cannot. No releases and all the code files are "placeholder.cpp"

Why even have a github if you don't actually publish anything there. To suggest that you are trustworthy and associate yourself with open source or source available without having to actually do it? Planning to do it, but being ashamed of your code? I don't know, but I definitely find it strange.

The point is to track issues. I thought this was fairly common practice, apps like Keypirinha do this.

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#54

Post by lazov »

axm__ wrote: post #52

Why are there 4000~ empty commits with the message "development work"?

The commits are a mirror of the real codebase. My intention was to show people that I've been working on this for a long time and that it's not ai slop abandonware. But after reading some of the comments here I can see how it has raised more questions than it has answered.

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#55

Post by FinnKuhn »

lazov wrote: post #53
FinnKuhn wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why even have a github if you don't actually publish anything there. To suggest that you are trustworthy and associate yourself with open source or source available without having to actually do it? Planning to do it, but being ashamed of your code? I don't know, but I definitely find it strange.

The point is to track issues. I thought this was fairly common practice, apps like Keypirinha do this.

That's fine, but why add a folder structure and placeholder files then?

And they still have a repository with the code available as well, so it doesn't mislead anyone into believing that they are source available or open source: https://github.com/Keypirinha/Packages

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#56

Post by unregistereddev »

This reeks of likely malware.

- Fake commit history

- No source code, despite being hosted on github

- Windows-only binaries available for download

If I weren't on my work computer I would pull down those binaries to see what is in them. It sure smells fishy.

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#57

Post by lazov »

FinnKuhn wrote: post #51
throw1234567891 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is “you” in this case?

The person publishing the software. Who that is I don't know as it is not displayed anywhere on the website and the the github repo is published by "LazoVelko". Who this is I don't know either. For all I know they are a russian hacker and a future version of this software is going to add an exploit. That is why you should probably think twice about downloading and installing software published by an anonymous person…

Hello, I'm Lazo. I built Neverclick. Nice to meet you FinnKuhn.

I'm not anonymous, this is my name irl.

Neverclick is digitally signed with Microsoft Trusted Signing (now known as Azure Artifact Signing). I had to send them my personal information like my address and ID to get my identity verified so that I'd get approved for it. Additionally, Neverclick doesn't require admin privileges to run, and it works completely offline so you can block it via firewall and it'll work just fine.

Is there anything else I can say or do to put your mind at ease?

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#58

Post by lazov »

FinnKuhn wrote: post #55
lazov wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is to track issues. I thought this was fairly common practice, apps like Keypirinha do this.

That's fine, but why add a folder structure and placeholder files then? And they still have a repository with the code available as well, so it doesn't mislead anyone into believing that they are source available or open source: https://github.com/Keypirinha/Packages

I wanted github to recognize the project as being written in C++. I made a controversial video about C++ a few months ago and people were clowning me that I had no C++ repos on my github lol.

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#59

Post by lazov »

unregistereddev wrote: post #56

This reeks of likely malware. - Fake commit history - No source code, despite being hosted on github - Windows-only binaries available for download If I weren't on my work computer I would pull down those binaries to see what is in them. It sure smells fishy.

The commit history is a mirror of the real codebase, I wanted to show people that I've been working on this for a long time and that it's not vibe coded ai slop. In retrospect it seems that it was a mistake to do this.

Neverclick is digitally signed with Microsoft Trusted Signing (now known as Azure Artifact Signing). I had to send them my address and ID to get my identity verified so that I'd get approved for it.

Is there anything else I can do to put your mind at ease?

Re: Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

#60

Post by whilenot-dev »

lazov wrote: post #58
FinnKuhn wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fine, but why add a folder structure and placeholder files then? And they still have a repository with the code available as well, so it doesn't mislead anyone into believing that they are source available or open source: https://github.com/Keypirinha/Packages

I wanted github to recognize the project as being written in C++. I made a controversial video about C++ a few months ago and people were clowning me that I had no C++ repos on my github lol.

So you thought putting empty cpp files in a repo for a closed-source project would give you some credibility there?
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