@aeva @wuest there was a period of time where some of Twisted's copy literally said 'supported platforms: Linux, mac, FreeBSD, Windows*, NetBSD

*: without Avast installed

@glyph @wuest I imagine windows defender mostly exists to ineffectually bully people into distributing their stuff on the windows store

@xgranade @glyph @wuest the sorts of situations where the answer to the question "why has this been allowed to continue" is "the purpose of a system is what it does" are imo usually happy accidents for the beneficiaries

@xgranade @glyph @wuest @aeva yea when you ask the question, "why does windows defender still exist in the face of demonstrably doing none if the things it is notionally intended to do?", that doesn't end up pointing at the windows defender development team, it ends up pointing at whoever in microsoft is responsible for it's continued existence, and oh look there is no publicly available information about who that is our why they are doing anything. 1/2