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If you installed and activated the popular Jetpack plugin on a self-hosted WordPress web site after 2013, and didn’t bother to read the fine print when accepting Jetpack’s Terms of Service, A...

https://boot13.com/boot13/automattic-sold-your-site-data-for-years/

I wonder how far Microsoft is willing to go with these tricks. They've been doing this kind of thing since the early Internet Explorer days, so it's nothing new. The company has been spanked from...

https://boot13.com/windows/microsofts-edge-related-shenanigans-continue/

Dear Microsoft: if you want people to use Edge, try making it better than the other available browsers. You know, compete.

https://boot13.com/edge/microsoft-cant-stop-bugging-us-about-edge/

A recently-discovered bug in newer versions of Windows is causing bizarre local time shifts. Keeping accurate time on computers is important for a lot of reasons, many of which are not obvious to...

https://boot13.com/microsoft/bug-causes-clock-problems-on-windows-10-11-windows-server/

I was just talking about a recent announcement from Microsoft, in which they assured the general public that their days of messing around with user settings and defaults on Windows were behind th...

https://boot13.com/microsoft/microsofts-empty-promises/

Here are the first two paragraphs of a recent post on the Windows blog: “Today we’re reaffirming our long-standing approach to put people in control of their Windows PC experience and to empo...

https://boot13.com/microsoft/microsoft-frames-long-overdue-windows-changes-as-reaffirming-our-long-standing-approach/

As I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, I’m using ChatGPT to generate some posts defining computing terms. I’m labeling them all clearly as generated text, but I’m also checking them careful...

https://boot13.com/boot13/chatgpt-experiments-in-writing/

Using a password manager is still the best way to securely record all your passwords. This assumes that you are in fact using different passwords for every web site and service that require one. ...

https://boot13.com/privacy/another-breach-at-a-password-storage-service-lastpass/

Some technologies seem always to be just around the corner. Every few years, people get excited all over again, about 3D media, virtual reality, voice assistants, hoverboards, self-driving cars, ...

https://boot13.com/cortana/cortana/

Web sites are traditionally shown with dark text on a light background. Which is reminiscent of something… (checks notes)… that’s right, books! Why change something that’s worked fine for...

https://boot13.com/firefox/dark-mode-rant/