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Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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MacOS pulled it for me, refused to open it Replaced it with NightFall https://github.com/r-thomson/Nightfall

Another very simple way is to make your own thing with the default Automator app.

* open up Automator and create new application

* select “change system appearance” and select toggle light/dark mode.

* save the ‘app’

Now, whenever you want to toggle light/dark mode, just open up spotlight and open up whatever you named the app. There’s probably a way to do it with Shortcuts too.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Is this a common slang in infosec? I've never seen it used like this and it has highly insensitive connotations for me in other contexts.

I had to google to check, and I’ve found so many interpretations that I feel like a linguist would have a field day with that word alone.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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I guess "modifying their device’s network settings" is already covered under whatever permissions we had to give it to perform the original task of switching on/off dark mode? That's a bummer. Would be nice if app permissions were more granular if that's the case.

And this is the risk that operating system developers run when you take away features or you don't develop features that your userbase wants. Look at the amount of Start Menu modifiers there are out there for Windows. All because Microsoft keeps on changing the start menu. Why? I don't know. I just want to get rid of the Recommended section, but I'm not allowed to.

Last night I got a notification that advertised Game Pass to me. I angrily clicked on manage notifications and there’s a notification source called “Suggested” that somehow was turned on. That was the last straw for me. I go through so much diligence setting up my browser’s ad block, only for the OS to bypass all that.

For now “Suggested” is turned off and I disabled all notifications for good measure, but I don’t know how much longer Windows will allow that. I don’t intend to find out.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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I know this happens with some frequency, I wonder how frequently the companies update the TOS with language like this. The very idea of a self-updating TOS that will govern all usage into perpetuity feels like it should have been legally stuck down years ago. This company's current language on indistinct modification rights: > We reserve our right to alter the terms in this Agreement and/or the pricing information an…

It has been struck down and probably would be again if anyone felt like suing: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/07/court-says-no-to..., https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=592583419165850...

> [Safeway] reserves the right to, from time to time, with or without notice to you, in [Safeway's] sole discretion, amend the Terms and Conditions for use and purchases regarding the online shopping services. Any amendment by [Safeway] will be effective only as to orders you place after [Safeway's] revisions of these Terms and Conditions as displayed on the Web site. [Safeway] will plan to notify you of any material amendments to these Terms and Conditions; however, it is your responsibility to review the Terms and Conditions before submitting each order. [Safeway] has no responsibility to notify you of any changes before any such changes are effective.

> Defendant argues that, at the time of their safeway.com registration, Class Members agreed to give Safeway the authority to change the terms of the contract without notice to them, by indicating that they agreed to the version of the Special Terms that are in effect at the time they make their subsequent orders. Defendant's version of the Special Terms states that customers agree to the terms "and the form in which they appear at the time your online transaction is processed." ECF No. 187 at 16-17 (emphases added). In order to complete their registration, Customers were required to manifest agreement to the Special Terms shown to them by clicking a link. Defendant contends that, as a result of users' agreement to this Special Term at the time of their registration, Safeway was not required to notify customers of future changes to the terms for those changes to become effective. Safeway contends that, because Class Members read the initial registration contract, every time they opted to go forward with an online purchase after registration, they were on notice that they were assenting to a new contractual agreement, governed by the Special Terms operative elsewhere on the website at the time of that purchase.

> The Court rejects this argument. The safeway.com agreement did not give Safeway the power to bind its customers to unknown future contract terms, because consumers cannot assent to terms that do not yet exist. A user confronting a contract in which she purports to agree to terms in whatever form they may appear in the future cannot know to what she is are agreeing. At most, this term in the safeway.com agreement could be read to indicate that a customer agrees to read the terms and conditions every time she makes a purchase on the website in the future. But the Court also concludes that, even in light of their agreement to the Special Terms at the time of registration, customers' assent to the revised Terms cannot be inferred from their continued use of safeway.com when they were never given notice that the Special Terms had been altered.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Selling ads is one thing. Selling my Internet connection, which violates the ToS of most ISPs, is a vastly different situation.

How So? I mean, NightOwl doesn't have an arrangement with your ISP, they have an arrangement with you.

I'm not sure your ISP is going to delete your account because you didn't know some app was doing something shady. If the standard is every app user has to know what each app does under the hood, then there's going to be a lot of people who won't be able to match that standard.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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> Isn't this sort of what the web is for? Service providers give you shiny objects for free and in exchange you give them complete access to your digital life. If you made it clear you were being sarcastic, you wouldn't be getting downvoted. Yes this is what many businesses want you to think. The web isn't for anything in particular besides general communication bound only by the laws beyond the first amendment.

Neither the First Amendment nor any particular set of laws bind the web generally.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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>> It is an alternative to the built in macOS automatic mode which only switches when the user steps away from the computer. Huh? Setting a schedule/location for nightshift and setting the dark mode setting to auto will always change instantly. If you use a launcher or spotlight then a simple one line applescript can change the setting as well. (tell application "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set d…

> Huh? Setting a schedule/location for nightshift and setting the dark mode setting to auto will always change instantly

Not in my case?! I’d say there’s a 25% chance that Dark Mode enables at sunset. It’s been this way for years — even up til Ventura.

Has it worked flawlessly for everyone else the whole time?

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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> The application … makes a lot of connections to [site], a website that sells tickets to live music events This is a common use for residential proxies. Ticket touts buy use of the infected users to make requests to try beat restrictions on access from data-centre hosts or high-volume access from and other hosts, to increase their charge of getting valuable tickets for later resale. A number of backdoored (by the cr…

NordVPN does this as well. Google and Amazon own large blocks of IP ranges for their cloud services, so it’s fairly easy to detect bots built on AWS and Google cloud.

On the other hand, Verizon also owns a large block of IP addresses that they give out to their residential customers.

NordVPN takes advantage of the fact that people like Netflix and Amazon don’t want to block out Verizon’s ip ranges, and disguise network traffic as residential traffic.

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