More specifically, it came at a time where they had to be very careful what they did because they had the DOJ peering down their neck.

Windows didn't ship with a competent PDF reader for over a decade and some because of the DOJ: Any attempt by Microsoft to enter a market that already had a competition was seen as anticompetitive.

It's pretty trivial to get ValidationOS running, even down to RL1 where the kernel and NT execution environment are the only things you have: https://youtu.be/Zw5ysOJcY84?t=610

Yes, and the FCC has been pretty lenient about the use of these modules under "modular" licensing

> comment section there is among the worst on the Internet

Some would argue it's right up there with HN ;)

Oh but HN is so much more interesting to watch. Recently someone built an app to find property near public lands, and to watch an infantanlized, largely urban population be pendanticly confused at an ungoverned existence.. its like having an ant farm.

Did you kill the dock and re-launch it?

Most set-defaults take effect the next time something is launched, and basically all of the things that affect the dock are only read at launch time.

Yeah, did `killall Finder' quite a few times, just to be sure

Some apps just don't leave the dock.

try the British voices.

Tracking dots were used in 2025 to uncover a ring of Pokemon beta card forgeries that caused multiple authenticity and grading companies to revoke many gradings due to high quality forgeries.

The smoking gun was almost always a mixture of quality, subtle details, and the tracking dots in some form or fashion. The writeup of the process is extremely detailed and shows just how these dots can be weaponized or utilized in the right/wrong circumstances. https://www.elitefourum.com/t/report-of-observations-regardi...

MMMM CHIP.

Because for some areas, it's the table stakes for finding a job much less applying.

In some tech-adjacent sectors, the way you apply is through a thin wrapper around the linkedin API. Sure you can try manually entering the data but the API provides them Just Enough pre-sorted and classified data that it gets sold as "convenience"

No they need to find a way to glue a chat service onto it.

What is this, 2010? You have to glue an AI assistant to it or you're never getting a promotion