Full Changelog: Dimly...v1.1

Changelog

1.1 — 2 September 2026

Never dim while media is playing. Dimly asks the Windows audio engine whether anything is
actually coming out of the speakers, so a video in a browser tab, VLC, PotPlayer or a music
player all hold the countdown. Pausing genuinely stops the stream, and the countdown then
starts from that moment rather than dimming on the spot. Any sound counts, music included.
Ignore devices that keep the PC awake. Windows' idle clock is reset by any HID report at
all, so a game controller with drifting analogue sticks pins it at zero forever and nothing —
not the screen saver, not the display timeout, not Dimly — can ever fire. With this on, Dimly
counts real keyboard, mouse and gamepad use instead. Off by default.
The executable now carries proper version information, so Explorer's tooltip and Properties
→ Details show the version, description and publisher.
build.ps1 prints a SHA-256 of the build, for publishing alongside a release.

A maximised window was mistaken for a fullscreen one, which made Never dim over a
fullscreen app block dimming indefinitely. A maximised window overhangs its monitor by the
invisible resize border, and when the taskbar is set to auto-hide the work area is the whole
monitor — so an ordinary maximised browser matched the old test exactly. Dimly now tells the
two apart by window placement and frame.
The away-brightness gauge drew the % hard against the number, which collided for narrow
readings such as 1%.
The gauge sat directly beneath the card heading with no space between them.

Activity is read through Raw Input instead of a low-level keyboard hook.
SetWindowsHookEx(WH_KEYBOARD_LL) is the API every keylogger reaches for, and installing one
across the machine is the most heuristic-tripping thing a small unsigned utility can do.
Dimly now has Windows post notifications to one private window, and only ever looks at which
kind of device sent them — never at what was typed.
The two new rules are worded to match the rest, and the settings window is taller to fit them.

Some antivirus engines flag the unsigned executable. On VirusTotal it scores 3 of 60, and all
three are machine-learning verdicts rather than signatures — Microsoft's Wacatac.B!ml,
Trapmine's Suspicious.low.ml.score, and SecureAge, an ML-only engine. Every signature-based
engine returns clean. See Windows says it does not recognise this app in the README.

First release.