Post Atyha73PMkVpXgPdxY by todymotmot@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Aty6XhC2qcuASBR8Ou by nixCraft@mastodon.social
       2025-05-10T08:43:54Z
       
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       Warning: Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media now wants every human programmer to be replaced by Gen AI.  Tim O'Reilly/company policy on book editing and writing went from "avoid Gen AI" to "you must use Gen AI as much as possible, we will monitor you through KPIs to use it as much as possible. So avoid O'Reilly books. Support an indie author. Plenty of them out there who write and sell books. No need to support corporate overlords. Source https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kimr4a/warning_tim_oreilly_of_oreilly_media_now_wants/ #ai
       
 (DIR) Post #Aty6Xi9xFspLRzSymW by tizmic@mastodon.de
       2025-05-10T08:57:46Z
       
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       @nixCraft I, for one, liked O'Reilly books, esp. their (endangered) animal depictions.What are good alternative (indie) sources? :blobhaj_hug_plushie: :blobcatlove:
       
 (DIR) Post #Aty6Xij39OtrCpt0U4 by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
       2025-05-10T09:51:56Z
       
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       @tizmic @nixCraft O'Reilly books were always the best marketed, but rarely the best.  Even without AI, their editing was very poor.  I read several and they were full of errors.My first four books were published by Pearson and their editors caught a lot of the things that made it into the final editions of O'Reilly books.  The main reasons that they were popular seemed to be:They were cheap (because they cut corners everywhere).They attended all of the conferences and got a load of visibility.These days, it's incredibly easy to self publish.  I took advice from @mwl on my most recent book, used a copyeditor that he recommended (she did an amazing job) and used draft2digital for publishing.  They coordinate with a number of print-on-demand places so they can be printed near where people order them and also put the eBook versions in a load of eBook stores.  Authors can get a much larger cut of the royalties with them (you can choose how much you sell for, I mostly want to get people to read the book rather than make money on this one, so I've set it so that we get almost nothing).
       
 (DIR) Post #Atyha73PMkVpXgPdxY by todymotmot@mastodon.social
       2025-05-11T00:09:50Z
       
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       @nixCraft Can we just create an alternate AI world for billionaires where they can think they're replacing us with AI, flying to Mars, exploiting workers, making a gazillion dollars, etc.? Meanwhile we normal, mentally-less-damaged people can get back to real world problems and deal with climate change, poverty, wars, etc 👍