This work was inspired by the challenges I encountered in the workplace. I manage several macOS remotely, and one of the biggest pains is that our users aren't administrators on those machines. Thus, they aren't able to dismiss the Squirrel Update prompts on their own, which was a productivity hindrance.
Initially as a fun side-project to satisfy my curiosity, I came up with a solution to mitigate this by having the Slack app, which was already installed in the main /Applications
directory, automatically update itself as soon as the Launch Daemon script fetches a new update from slack.com. The script would notify all users actively using Slack that the app would restart itself in several seconds.
Admittedly, the above solution wasn't organic and understandably it can be a grave security concern for some. The only upside of