Craig Newmark gets way less attention than he deserves (which is probably how he prefers it) for being one of those few California tech billionaires (or now maybe only former billionaire after such persistent philanthropy) who seems genuinely humble, decent and morally sturdy about how to use what he's built and his own money.
Craiglist is hardly a flashy company, but in today's world of almost universally parasitic, mendacious, user data-selling, spying, prying businesses involved in tech in nearly any way, it's something of a rough and unique little gem.
Use Debian to remove all the publicly aknowledged backdoors in OSX and Windows.
Don't answer unknown numbers on the phone.
Don't use Goggle search (phishing sites in search results).
That is like 99.99% right there.
Preferably the telephone provider could have some sort of 'firewall' you could enable such that your phone can't be called by a number you haven't called first or whitelisted in some other way.
Well I thought of this as 'suitable for my parents' advice, so I guess the answer is, don't use search. Way too many scam and semi-scam sites. Go with word of mouth instead.
Oh and obviously people need ad blockers. Many scam baits in those.
Set one or the other as the default search engine in Firefox, throw on ublock origin and privacy badger, tell your older parents that this is the latest and greatest and that everyone is using it these days.
More probably supply related. I worked at an incubator once upon a time, there was no dearth of funds to pull in from rich donors and investors.
The issue was always finding quality teams and people. We ended up funding lot of poor quality output. But its all par for the course in how progress works. Keep planting seeds all over and hope for the best.
Holy hell their revenue was over 1 billion dollars in 2018??
-https://aimgroup.com/2022/02/07/craigslist-revenue-rebounds-...
It is interesting how much value they can extract with Facebook Marketplace as competitors.
I like the technical conservatism of their site though.
Craig Newmark gets way less attention than he deserves (which is probably how he prefers it) for being one of those few California tech billionaires (or now maybe only former billionaire after such persistent philanthropy) who seems genuinely humble, decent and morally sturdy about how to use what he's built and his own money.
Craiglist is hardly a flashy company, but in today's world of almost universally parasitic, mendacious, user data-selling, spying, prying businesses involved in tech in nearly any way, it's something of a rough and unique little gem.
This should be applauded more loudly
Dunno what money is supposed to do.
Use Debian to remove all the publicly aknowledged backdoors in OSX and Windows.
Don't answer unknown numbers on the phone.
Don't use Goggle search (phishing sites in search results).
That is like 99.99% right there.
Preferably the telephone provider could have some sort of 'firewall' you could enable such that your phone can't be called by a number you haven't called first or whitelisted in some other way.
What to use instead of Google?
Well I thought of this as 'suitable for my parents' advice, so I guess the answer is, don't use search. Way too many scam and semi-scam sites. Go with word of mouth instead.
Oh and obviously people need ad blockers. Many scam baits in those.
Startpage is haflway decent. Ecosia as well.
Set one or the other as the default search engine in Firefox, throw on ublock origin and privacy badger, tell your older parents that this is the latest and greatest and that everyone is using it these days.
I switched to DuckDuckGo mostly because google likes to ignore some of my search terms which I find infuriating.
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More probably supply related. I worked at an incubator once upon a time, there was no dearth of funds to pull in from rich donors and investors. The issue was always finding quality teams and people. We ended up funding lot of poor quality output. But its all par for the course in how progress works. Keep planting seeds all over and hope for the best.
grow to fast and you will pick up a lot of dead weight