Policy
Editorial standards
Published so readers can hold us to them.
These are the rules we hold ourselves to. They are published so that readers can hold us to them as well.
Accuracy
- Technical claims are checked against primary sources: specifications, official project documentation and vendor material — not against other articles.
- Where behaviour varies between manufacturers or versions, we say so instead of presenting one case as universal.
- Where we are uncertain, the article says we are uncertain.
- Figures, limits and capacities are stated with the conditions that apply to them.
Independence
- No article is paid for, sponsored, or supplied by a third party.
- We have no commercial relationship with the projects or vendors we write about.
- If that ever changes, the relationship will be disclosed at the top of every affected article, and the disclosure will be specific rather than general.
Advertising
If advertising appears on this site, it will be clearly distinguishable from editorial content and labelled as advertising. Advertisers have no access to, and no influence over, what we publish or how we describe any product. Advertising is never presented as a recommendation.
Safety
- Procedures that can destroy data carry a warning before the procedure, not after it.
- We do not publish instructions for defeating security mechanisms, bypassing licensing, or obtaining software outside its publisher's terms.
- We describe how to verify software you already have; we do not point readers to any particular place to obtain it.
Reviews and updates
Every article carries a publication date and a review date. Articles are reviewed when the underlying technology changes and at least annually. When we correct a substantive error, we change the article and update the review date rather than quietly editing it. Older versions are not kept online, because for reference material the current version is the only one worth reading.
Reader reports
Corrections, disagreements and requests for topics are all welcome through the contact page. Reports that identify a specific claim and explain why it is wrong get the fastest response, because they are the ones we can act on directly.