Jules Fleury

@silvercat589380

Unterbäch, Switzerland Joined Jan 2026

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Jules Fleury

@silvercat589380 · Jan 12, 2026

I forked Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council and added a Modern UI & Settings Page, multi-AI API support, web search provi

Hey everyone!
I recently spent a couple of weekends improving Karpathy's excellent LLM Council Open Source Project.
The [original project](https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council) was brilliant but lacked usability and flexibility imho.
**What I added:**
* Web search integration (DuckDuckGo, Tavily, Brave, Jina AI)
* Clean Modern UI with a settings page to support:
* Support for multiple API providers (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.)
* Customizable system prompts and temperature controls (the custom prompts open up tons of use cases beyond a "council")
* Export & Import of councils, prompts, and settings (for backup and even sharing)
* Control the council size (from 1 to 8 - original only supported 3)
* Full Ollama support for local models
* "I'm Feeling Lucky" random model selector
* Filter only Free models on OpenRouter (although Rate Limits can be an issue)
* Control the Process, from a simple asking multiple models a question in parallel (Chat Only), Chat & peer rating where models rate the responses of other models, and Full end-to-end deliberation where the Chairman model makes the final decision on the best answer
You can compare up to 8 models simul

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Philip Jensen

@silverpeacock471409 · Jan 11, 2026 8:06 pm

Windows Server 2025 DCs: Defender not starting, PDQ Inventory scans hanging, Splashtop failing

**TL;DR**
On **Windows Server 2025 (24H2) Domain Controllers**, we hit a boot-time issue where:
* **Microsoft Defender Antivirus fails to initialize at startup**
* **Splashtop Remote Service fails to start**
* **PDQ Inventory scans hang indefinitely**
* Servers can boot into a state where **Defender is effectively disabled**
Disabling/removing **Splashtop** (per vendor guidance) and rebooting restored Defender and system stability.
**Symptoms**
* WinDefend service = Running, but:
* Get-MpComputerStatus initially showed AMEngineVersion = [0.0.0.0](http://0.0.0.0)
* Real-time protection unavailable
* Defender logs **Event ID 5017** at boot:
*“Group Policy hive was not ready when MDE AV service started”*
* SplashtopRemoteService fails with repeated **7000 / 7009**
* PDQ Inventory scans hang (only on affected servers)
No third-party AV. Same OS build, same CUs, same GPOs. One control server did **not** fail.
**Key finding**
Measured boot timing shows:
* Defender **5017** fires \~**29s after boot**
* Group Policy **8000** completes **30–80s later**
Defender is starting **before** computer policy hive is ready.
**Why Splashtop matters**
Every server with this issue had Splashtop in

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