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  • Not saying other antivirus software suites are not useful or much better, just only that defender is shit. People think it’s great, but it fails at basic scanning reliability & is reliant on Windows Update actually working ok too, which is a pretty shitty problem to have for security software. My expectation is that if I download malware the binary is not allowed to execute until scanning happened, Defender only sporadically fulfills this on real actively used computers with aging Windows installs.



  • Given the same input, a compiler will always produce the same output, down to the last bit. The same cannot be said about AI

    LLM’s have something like a temperature setting that is producing the intentional randomness, so that you prompting it is not going around in circles all the time. (if you are running an army of agents this is actually important for usefulness)

    Anyway this is not an inherent LLM thing, it can be turned off.













  • it’s absolutely possible to reduce the number of tries to hits to a manageable level for a distributed botnet that can’t easily be blocked.

    This is very hard for me to imagine. Even if the people running the website are incredibly incompetent, they would have to be intentionally moronic about passkey generation for what you are envisioning to be realistic. You are right that passkeys enable brute forcing on a scale regular passwords don’t, but it doesn’t matter, because normal passkeys are just too long for this to be a worry.