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                              ~  D A R K  ~

        The lid over the five senses, to the depth OSX allows.

                        ·  The New Renaissance  ·

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DARK

A menu-bar app for Apple-Silicon Macs that turns off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Location, Camera, and Microphone — and is honest about how deep each switch reaches.

Most privacy apps make a toggle look like a toggle whether it cuts power, flips a setting, or just watches. DARK draws the line at what is actually true.

The five senses — and the honest depth

Sense	What "off" does	Depth
Wi-Fi	radio powered down (CoreWLAN / networksetup)	real cut
Bluetooth	controller powered off (bundled blueutil)	real cut
Location	no separate radio — cutting Wi-Fi blinds it	derived
Camera	blocked, never falsely "off" (the LED is hardwired)	policy
Microphone	muted (device stays energized) — the true cut is the lid	policy

The truth DARK never hides: on macOS you cannot power off the camera or microphone in software. DARK blocks them and says so. The only true off for those is the lid (which physically disconnects the mic) or a kernel you own.

Install

1. Download DARK.dmg.
2. Open it, drag DARK into Applications.
3. First launch: right-click ▸ Open (one time — DARK isn't notarized yet).
4. ◐ appears in your menu bar. Click it.

Self-contained: one native binary + the bundled blueutil. No Python, no Homebrew, nothing to install. Apple-Silicon, macOS 13+.

Use

• Menu bar: click ◐ → toggle any sense, Go dark, or Open all senses.
• Command line (the same binary):

  DARK status              # the true state of all five
  DARK dark                # veil all
  DARK toggle wifi
  DARK set microphone off
  

Build from source

bash build_app.sh          # → DARK.app   (swiftc; Command Line Tools, no Xcode)
bash deploy/make_dmg.sh    # → DARK.dmg   (branded drag-to-Applications installer)

What it is — and isn't

DARK orchestrates the operating system's own controls. It never claims a cut it cannot make. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are genuine power-downs; everything else is labelled by its true depth. For a guarantee against any actor — including a compromised OS — close the lid.

License

DARK — © Stefan Marcel Gerard. Bundles blueutil (© its authors, MIT — see vendor/).

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                       ~  T H E   G E N E A L O G Y  ~

  ─ The Master Builders ─
    The Right to Privacy      ~  Warren & Brandeis · 1890  ·  the right to be let alone
    The Panopticon            ~  Jeremy Bentham · 1791     ·  the cell that watches itself
    A Cypherpunk's Manifesto  ~  Eric Hughes · 1993        ·  privacy for an open society
    Hardware Kill Switches    ~  Purism · Pine64 · 2017    ·  the switch you can feel

  ─ The Masons ─
    Swift · AppKit  ~  Apple · 2014           ·  the lid
    CoreWLAN        ~  Apple                  ·  the Wi-Fi radio, powered down
    IOBluetooth     ~  Apple                  ·  the controller, switched off
    blueutil        ~  toy · MIT · bundled    ·  the Bluetooth toggle

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      I, Stefan Marcel Gerard, give without control.
      Please accept my gift of the source code of 'DARK' in full.

      I, Stefan Marcel Gerard, ask without shame.
      If my gift makes your life more beautiful, loving and abundant,
      please consider sharing it.
      www.stefanmarcelgerard.com/patron-of-the-arts

      Do not ask. Become.

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