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by FinnKuhn 13 days ago
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.
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lazov 13 days ago
The point is to track issues. I thought this was fairly common practice, apps like Keypirinha do this.
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FinnKuhn 13 days ago
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

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lazov 13 days ago
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.
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whilenot-dev 13 days ago
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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throw1234567891 13 days ago
Who is “you” in this case?
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FinnKuhn 13 days ago
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.

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lazov 13 days ago
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?

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throw1234567891 13 days ago
You were replying to the person in the thread who clearly wasn’t the author, it was really confusing for a bit.
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