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Hypertune announced "Mouse Control" as a new HyperTune feature: DPI, polling rate, buttons and lighting, written straight to your mouse. The code they ship tells a different story.
It's built on OpenMouse (@openmouseapp), a free open-source mouse control panel. Hypertune's live site, downloaded today:
- "OpenMouse" still appears in 7 of its own error messages and 3 storage keys, word for word from OpenMouse's source
- OpenMouse's own app text is in there with the name swapped. "We're the developers behind OpenMouse" now reads "We're the developers behind Hypertune Mouse Control"
- 71% of OpenMouse's distinctive driver function names are in it, down to the same rare brands
- The page file closely matches OpenMouse's, with OpenMouse's links replaced by a note that says "TODO(hypertune)"
The code made it in. OpenMouse's license notice did not.
OpenMouse is AGPL-3.0. Anyone can reuse it, even commercially. The deal is simple: keep the license notice and give users the full source. We found no OpenMouse or AGPL notice anywhere in their code, no license file on the site, and no source.
It goes one level deeper. Part of OpenMouse's ASUS driver is ported from libratbag, and carries libratbag's MIT copyright notice, which that license requires in all copies or substantial portions. Hypertune's code contains that ported part. The libratbag notice isn't there either.
This isn't a hobby project. @hypertune_ is Intel-backed and sold as a $9.99/month subscription, and the feature is headed into that app. Fun detail: the swapped text in their code says "Hypertune is free and open source, with no accounts, subscriptions, or paid tiers." Hours before announcing this beta, @austincopeland_ celebrated "a new record today for highest amount of @hypertune_ subscribers."
A company setting subscriber records can afford one line of credit to the open-source developers whose work it ships.
If OpenMouse gave separate permission, say so. Otherwise: credit OpenMouse and libratbag, and publish the source, like the license asks.
Receipts in the images. Archived copies, so anyone can check even if it goes offline (Ctrl+F "OpenMouse"):
Hypertune code: web.archive.org/web/20261014…
Hypertune page: web.archive.org/web/20261014…
OpenMouse: github.com/OpenMouse-Project…
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Bad people often win not because they're better, but because they ask for what they want without guilt.
Some good people feel guilty for wanting something for themselves.
Don't confuse being a good person with constantly putting yourself last and sabotaging your own boundaries.
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WE. ARE. INEVITABLE.
Starburst has won their first match the GM tier of @ConsoleGamingLG vs BGSU Falcons 26! GG! 🔥
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Nightmare Eclipse, the person who has been dropping Windows zero-days, has finally decided to share his story. He's an ex-Microsoft employee, we had dinner together, and I've known him and his story for some time.
His real name is Abdelhamid Naceri. He's a very talented and intelligent individual, and he came across as someone who'd be a real professional to work with.
"If only I didn't pour my soul into that job with countless of stupid non sleep nights, i would have gotten over it..." - Naceri
He loved Microsoft.
I wouldn't say that what he did, releasing all those zero-days, was normal, but he felt he had no other option because of the injustice Microsoft did to him.
They fired him, and you can read the vague reason they gave in the email sent to him by the Vice President of Engineering at MSRC, below.
According to Abdel's account, VP Tom Gallagher met with him after the firing to tell him they were blacklisting him from Microsoft and writing him a bad reference so he'd never be able to get a job again.
Normally you'd think, well, big deal, just find another job, right? But Abdel doesn't have a European passport, and he was only a couple of months away from getting permanent EU residence.
So instead of granting him those couple of months, Microsoft fired him for a reason that, as far as we can tell, was never made clear, then fought him in court and offered him €55,000 plus a year's pay to drop the case.
All while Abdel was releasing zero-days.
Abdel continued suing Microsoft for unfair termination in Germany, a fight that has cost him over $200,000.
He says Microsoft refused to reveal any details about the security breach and went another direction.
If you are reading this, and you can offer him a LEGAL job, this is his e-mail: [email protected]
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I also need more aimer friends, any oomfs who love aim training, hit me up :3
