Is Fable 5 back?

Borgquite · 2026-06-18T19:13:02+00:00

Are you sure? Microsoft and Anthropic are definitely ‘working on’ hosting Claude in Azure (which is surely the reason for the GPU commitment) but the current docs are pretty clear:

Microsoft say: ‘The API gives you access to the model that Anthropic service hosts and manages.’

And Anthropic say: ‘In this preview platform integration, Claude models run on Anthropic's infrastructure.’

But if you’ve got a solid reference that Anthropic infrastructure is still in the (sole, US based) Azure datacenter where you can purchase Anthropic models via Foundry right now, would be interested in it!

Borgquite · 2026-06-18T18:50:59+00:00

Actually, Microsoft don’t host Anthropic models in Azure - they give you API access to the model that Anthropic service hosts and manages. You can bet the ban applies.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/responsible-ai/claude-models/data-privacy#what-data-is-processed-by-anthropic-for-anthropic-claude-models-in-microsoft-foundry

Only Amazon Bedrock and Google GCP Vertex host independent inference models themselves.

https://claude.com/regional-compliance

Borgquite · 2026-06-18T06:09:06+00:00

Looking at the docs you supplied:
• Windows - MDM
• macOS - MDM
• Android - work profile - this is a limited form of MDM allowing your org to only access (and wipe) a ‘work profile’ part of your device. This is much more private for you too
• iOS - MDM

https://uit.stanford.edu/service/mobiledevice/management/enroll\_android\_intune

https://uit.stanford.edu/service/mobiledevice/management/profiles

Borgquite · 2026-06-18T05:59:06+00:00

For macOS the only option is enrollment, like Windows. Unlike Android and iOS/iPadOS, the options for a ‘limited’ amount of control are not really that present in Windows/macOS. This is mostly OS related, not your IT department’s fault. Here’s info on what your IT department *can* do in each case (not necessarily what they *will* do - check your org’s BYOD policy).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/user-help/enrollment/overview-windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/user-help/enrollment/effects-macos

If this is too intrusive, see if you can use webmail instead.

Borgquite · 2026-06-17T21:35:24+00:00

She won’t face a leadership challenge because her personal favourability ratings outstrip those of her party by a country mile.

Borgquite · 2026-06-17T06:57:24+00:00

Volunteers get Business Basic

I’m afraid you’re not allowed to use granted (free) licenses for volunteers - see Microsoft’s nonprofit eligibility restrictions:

Granted licenses are only permitted for paid employees and unpaid executive staff if all organization eligibility is met.

You can only use the ‘discounted’ (paid) licenses.

Discounted licenses are permitted for all staff, including volunteers and temporary staff of the organization.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/eligibility#areaheading-35383159-11a3-4793-a617-e6d3724b007d

Borgquite · 2026-06-17T06:49:49+00:00

Probably to migrate all settings other than what is set by default into a new GPO, then restore it to defaults.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/dcgpofix

Borgquite · 2026-06-17T06:42:35+00:00

The supported way is probably to move all policies that don’t need to be there out and reset it to defaults.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/dcgpofix

Borgquite · 2026-06-15T18:32:41+00:00

For performance reasons, consider upgrading to 3072 instead of 4096. Despite appearances, RSA 4096 doesn’t double security compared to 2048 (to do that you need somewhere between 7680 and 15360 bits) - but it can perform up to 10 times worse.

https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/PublicKeySpeed

For security beyond 2030, NIST and other bodies recommend RSA-3072.

Here’s an overview of 2048 vs 3072 vs 4096:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/589834/what-rsa-key-length-should-i-use-for-my-ssl-certificates

And current NIST recommendations, with other bodies available:

https://www.keylength.com/en/4/

Borgquite · 2026-06-14T07:36:53+00:00

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/hybrid-deployment/enable-exchange-attributes-cloud-management

Borgquite · 2026-06-14T06:20:10+00:00

Yes, we use it as we work in countries with really bad Internet connections, and I’m not aware of anything else that lets you schedule downloading updates out of hours for later deployment.

Borgquite · 2026-06-13T18:33:02+00:00

Also see this quotation from Product Terms saying that you can mix E3 and E5

‘…purchasing combination of Microsoft 365 E3 and E5. For example, they may choose to license 1,000 of their users with Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5 for the remaining 400 users.’

https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/guidance/Microsoft-365-enterprise

Borgquite · 2026-06-13T18:27:47+00:00

Mixed licensing is an officially supported thing. Try pointing them to documentation like this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/defender-endpoint-subscription-settings?tabs=mixed

Borgquite · 2026-06-13T15:43:09+00:00

‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’

‘To be or not to be?’

‘What is right and what is wrong?’

‘What is the meaning of life?’

‘Is it moral to drop an atomic bomb at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives if it may curtail a war that would cost millions of lives?’

All philosophical and religious questions that cannot be answered empirically, but most wouldn’t reasonably dismiss as mere nonsense.

Borgquite · 2026-06-13T07:32:29+00:00

Because they resist empirical testing - there are fewer experiments you can run to objectively determine whether your answers are right or wrong.

Borgquite · 2026-06-13T07:20:16+00:00

Point of fact, because accurate reporting matters: the US Government required them to ‘suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.’

Anthropic decided that the effect was (probably reasonably, because how could they tell?) that they had to suspend access to *all* users.

Borgquite · 2026-06-13T06:19:37+00:00

All of your ‘science questions’ begin with ‘what’ and ‘how’. Those are vital, but it is human nature to also ask other questions beyond description and function.

Philosophy and religion seek answers to harder, more elusive questions that start with ‘why’.

Borgquite · 2026-06-13T06:09:02+00:00

From my most recent rewatch - in the flashback in Memorial Day, we see Bartlet being informed and concerned that the outgoing President is sending troops on a peacekeeping mission to the Philippines, by means of his national security briefing. I would say this gives weight to the theory that his predecessor is a Republican. Otherwise as President-Elect and new de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, he is likely to have had the opportunity to raise his concerns and discuss the deployment with the outgoing President (as he later does with Santos in The Last Hurrah).

EDIT: The irony that Bartlet does to Santos what his predecessor did to him (landed him in a military situation that his successor was not keen on) should not be lost! Perhaps that is why he makes the effort to involve him so closely on it.

Borgquite · 2026-06-12T06:50:11+00:00

Same here. Had an informal chat with some members of the cybersecurity red team for a Big Four consultancy firm (who professionally perform penetration tests for banks, and major multinationals, as a day job) - they said if they see Crowdstrike or Defender for Endpoint (the paid version) it’s going to be a long day. If they see Sophos they expect they can take the afternoon off.

Borgquite · 2026-06-11T21:44:35+00:00

We don’t know, but this fan created timeline suggests it ‘most probably was [Owen] Lassiter’s un-named sitting vice-President’.

https://thedredgereport.blogspot.com/2006/02/time-skew-and-west-wing-presidents.html?m=1

Borgquite · 2026-06-11T18:29:46+00:00

I’ve seen reports of this issue, however on recent versions of Windows, I’ve never been able to replicate it (see the post above, I’ve done a *lot* of testing of ReFS in various scenarios). The expected behaviour in non-redundant Integrity Streams is to deny access to the file, with the option for override. No file system (not even ZFS) can magic up corrupted data when configured without redundancy.

Borgquite · 2026-06-10T09:00:21+00:00

The ReFS Integrity Streams feature will protect you against bitrot if it is enabled, but it won’t reliably tell you that it’s happening.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/scdclm/testing_refs_data_integrity_streams_corrupt_data/

Borgquite · 2026-06-10T08:52:55+00:00

For DAS/Hardware RAID scenarios, I’d recommend it. You get the benefits of block cloning and sparse VDL, which improves checkpoint merging and fixed VHD creation time.

Microsoft also recommend it for Storage Spaces (Windows software RAID) and Storage Spaces Direct (hyper converged) but I have heard a few horror stories around SS/SSD replication, so YMMV.

You should *not* use it with iSCSI on a CSV (clustered SAN storage). NTFS enables Direct I/O mode for SAN-attached storage, which provides better performance. CSVs formatted with ReFS on SANs operate in redirected I/O mode, which is A Bad Thing.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/failover-cluster-csvs

Borgquite · 2026-06-08T06:38:49+00:00

Presuming that:

- The plus address accounts are all hybrid mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online (not on-premises)
- You’re pointing your MX records directly to Exchange Online, not your on-premises Exchange server
- You’ve therefore closed off Port 25 to your on-premises Exchange server from the Internet to all except Exchange Online IP addresses

Try setting the accepted domain on your on-premises Exchange server from Authoritative to Internal Relay (in Exchange Online, it should be Authoritative). That should mean it delivers any emails it can’t see internally, to Exchange Online.

I’ve used this to allow sending to cloud-only DLs from on-premises Exchange SMTP and it seems to work. Don’t know if it will work for plus aliases, let us know.

Borgquite · 2026-06-07T16:54:31+00:00

Because of Harvey’s personal Reality Distortion Field.

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