It is dumb that this has to be worked around.

Some breaks are mandated by the FCC for station identification. These “Hard Breaks” are at the same time on all stations.

I’m lost on this. What is the connection between Stack Overflow and Copilot? From the outside, that’s just the notification that Microsoft is pushing to all windows users, regardless of what they’re doing.

Yeah, it seems like an anti-spam measure. I remember that accounts would get all of their comments overwritten if they were compromised, and this would help that.