Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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paxys•about 2 hours ago

Fun joke at Sony's expense but it's going to spectacularly backfire when Microsoft inevitably announces that the next Xbox won't support physical discs.

NetOpWibby•about 1 hour ago

Same stunt Samsung pulls when Apple does something like remove the headphone jack.

recursive•about 1 hour ago

Headphone jack mentioned. I'm not going to stop buying phones based on them until there are no such options remaining, God forbid.

wwind123•36 minutes ago

I used to hate phones without the headphone jacket too, even though my headphone lines always needed some detangling out of my pocket when I needed them. But then I tried a pair of Bluetooth earbuds (two earbuds connected with a plastic band to hang on your neck), and actually fell in love. No need to detangle lines, and when I don't listen to things I could just take down the earbuds but leave the plastic band on my neck. Not easy to lose, compared to the completely wireless earbuds. Batteries are in one or both ends of the plastic band, so one charge could last a long time. The only downside is it takes up more space than both wired headphones and wireless earbuds when you put it in a bag, because the plastic band is not that flexible. But that's a cost I am willing to pay.

usr1106•13 minutes ago

It won't backfire because there is no relevant competition. A couple of complains on social media, but no drop in sales.

SXX•about 2 hours ago

This is the worst part. They could actually capitalize on announcing Xbox wont drop physical media, but obviously that's not happening.

lynndotpy•about 2 hours ago

It reminds me of Google proudly boasting their headphone jack when Apple removed theirs, then OnePlus proudly boasting their headphone jack when Google removed theirs.

SpecialistK•about 1 hour ago

"No one buys phones with a headphone jack!"

Yeah, cause you all stop offering them within one upgrade cycle! I just checked my carrier, and the only phones they offer with jacks are the lowest end Motos and TCLs.

adithyassekhar•about 1 hour ago

Samsung too (headphone jack, charger in the box). Apt username btw :)

clhodapp•about 2 hours ago

The backfiring is baked in, if you think about it: This program is going to die in just a few days, while Sony is going to continue selling physical games for years.

codezero•about 1 hour ago

The next Xbox already dropped physical media. The rog x ally Xbox portable is the last xbox branded gaming device.

SteveNuts•about 1 hour ago

Remember when Microsoft held a mock funeral for the iPhone? They’re all bark no bite.

altmanaltman•17 minutes ago

There might not be a next xbox since Microsoft has been slowly moving away from the console idea to the platform idea with xbox.

protocolture•21 minutes ago

I think they did. Honestly the 2 announcements seemed timed, like a mutual stand down.

px1999•about 2 hours ago

Initially I thought this was a useless/dumb idea.

On reflection, I like it - it's weird. Old internet weird. Like someone with a couple hundred bucks and some time on their hands wants to do something they think is fun or funny... it feels human. I think we need more of this. Extra points for using a sketchy o365 form that looks like a scam.

ninjin•about 2 hours ago

Felt the same way initially, but you are very much right that this feels like a throwback to a more playful time about twenty years ago. Put in a request for the OpenBSD src repository, which is too big to fit on a CD these days and I am looking forward to see if/how they square that circle. OpenBSD used to ship their code on CDs up until about ten years ago, so it is a bit of a fun throwback in that way as well.

vlovich123•about 1 hour ago

> Put in a request for the OpenBSD src repository, which is too big to fit on a CD these days and I am looking forward to see if/how they square that circle.

From literally the first few sentences:

> If we can make you a CD, it may take a few weeks to reach you.

They just won’t send it to you. Also keep in mind that they say it has to be your repo - not sure how they’re verifying that but you probably won’t get it for that reason too.

ninjin•about 1 hour ago

Riddle me this, what was the cost to me in terms of trying? If I feel like treating this like the fun we used to have online, what is the point in sucking all the fun out of it by "going lawyer" on the conditions? If I get a CD (or even DVD), it will be a fun story to tell (like when I asked Schneier to write a true Schneier Fact as opposed to his signature when I ordered a signed copy of one of his books). If I get nothing, well, I guess my life is simply over at that point.

evanmarshall•about 2 hours ago

I want OpenBSD on blu-ray

jedbrooke•about 3 hours ago

> Supplies are limited, and the first 1,000 eligible submissions will receive one. Limit one per person. Availability may be limited by country or region.

This seems quite limited to be a real product, but also quite a lot for seemingly what’s just a joke to mock Sony for ceasing blu-ray production.

It’s worth mentioning that github does (did?) do some cool stuff with physical media archiving of code like the arctic project [1], but these CDs are burned, not pressed so they’ll only last around 10 years

[1]: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault

StilesCrisis•about 2 hours ago

Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...

numpad0•11 minutes ago

There are fully automated disc burner bots. EPSON models take 100 discs at once and burn up to 30 discs per hour, so 1000 discs is just 10 magazine load/unloads or <1.5 days in machine time.

1: https://epson.com/Support/Other-Products/Discproducers/Epson...

paxys•about 2 hours ago

Github is in San Francisco

killingtime74•about 2 hours ago

Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a San Francisco office building...

calvinmorrison•about 3 hours ago

Not really cool. They ignored licenses and just stole people (my) code, and gave it to a 3rd party to reproduce for their own commercial uses.

jedberg•about 3 hours ago

For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.

tonymet•3 minutes ago

It won’t boot, but someone please upload Slackware to your repo and have Microsoft burn it

mikrl•about 3 hours ago

One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage

Klonoar•about 3 hours ago

Finally, I can get Ubuntu on a CD.

whalesalad•about 1 hour ago

Back in the day I ordered the free disks by the hundreds

ronjakoi•19 minutes ago

Disks are magnetic. The optical kind are discs.

catlifeonmars•about 1 hour ago

Is this the one with a hash collision?

penr0se•about 3 hours ago

Excellent choice, sir

donatj•about 1 hour ago

Ever time I see one of these public forms hosted on a generic form platform, I wonder whether it’s legitimate or just a phishing attempt to collect personal information.

joshawash•about 3 hours ago

This looks like some very finely crafted phishing.

nixosbestos•about 3 hours ago

Rather concerned that there's exactly two comments noticing this. I immediately was like "um, it's an Office 365 form, are people this gullible". EDIT: Fortunately a few more people getting it now.

Maybe I'm the dingus but, just not good vibes. Apparently it's probably "fine": https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

Shout-out to the downvoters, may you continue filling randomly linked, MS Forms blindly from nameless accounts, eat your hearts out.

krrishd•about 2 hours ago

In fairness, GitHub is under a corporate umbrella with Office 365

semilin•about 2 hours ago

This is entirely irrelevant. The problem is that anybody can make a Microsoft Form and there's no obvious indication that it's a form from Github without digging around.

chazeon•about 1 hour ago

I remember years ago, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc., could all be obtained via CD for free; years later, everything become a limited print. https://web.archive.org/web/20090219122023/https://shipit.ub...

usr1106•26 minutes ago

Yeah, 2010 CDs were still pretty visible. Not sure how many people still ordered them, but at least they were always distributed at events. Don't remember when it started to no longer fit on a CD.

infinite_spin•about 3 hours ago

This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless

dnlosx•about 3 hours ago

Is this a real Microsoft site, or just a form created by anyone trying to collect e-mail addresses and phone numbers to steal accounts?

guessmyname•about 2 hours ago

It’s real → https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd

aetherspawn•about 2 hours ago

Compared the form ID in original submission and after redirect and it looks ok…

ctippett•about 1 hour ago

Given the hour this is making headlines, they'll be posting a lot of CDs to the antipodes.

skinfaxi•about 3 hours ago

Bold of them to call out another company when they haven't been doing well in the court of public opinion themselves lately.

geophph•about 2 hours ago

It’s like when I bought HTMX 2.0 release on floppy

cadamsdotcom•about 3 hours ago

Good time to still have a CD burner sitting around, business opportunities everywhere!

Want your 200gb game shipped on 300-400 CDs? Just pay postage & handling ;)

schappim•about 3 hours ago

This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?

H501•about 1 hour ago

I hope Linus orders a CD of the Linux kernel.

usr1106•19 minutes ago

It does not fit on a CD.

bigfishrunning•10 minutes ago

A kernel tarball is 266 megabytes, it fits on a CD

g-b-r•about 1 hour ago

> I confirm I own this repository and grant GitHub permission to press it to a CD

They're concerned about copyright for burning a public repo to a CD, but sucking up everything for AI training was ok?

MBCook•about 2 hours ago

1/2” open reel magnetic tape please or GTFO.

defrost•about 2 hours ago

If you've got the $$'s for the media and a reader there are plenty of SEG geophysics data storage bunkers that can expedite that request.

xena•about 2 hours ago

I requested the code for Anubis, I'll keep you all updated on what I get!

sn0n•about 1 hour ago

But then you have to ask yourself… Is this an op… Sony and ms in cahoots to get a list of problem children?

ChrisArchitect•41 minutes ago

Similar: Domino's pizza social media

OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

In response to trends in the gaming industry, as of 1st April 2027 Domino's UK will cease production of physical pizzas and shift to production of digital pizzas only.

Consumers will be able to download our full range of delicious pizza codes and, using the power of the imagination, enjoy them in an entirely virtual sense.

https://twitter.com/Dominos_UK/status/2072602429959340517 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768873)

recursive4•about 2 hours ago

I'd settle for one day without a SEV.

TacticalCoder•about 1 hour ago

So a funny thing happened to me a while ago... I built my current PC, about 3 years ago (an AMD 7700X but whatever). At some point I wanted to check some old data DVDs I burned, maybe one year after I built the PC or something: basically to make sure everything on the data DVDs was safely backed up in other places...

So I dug out an old internal DVD reader/burner (still have a few of those) only to notice that: my PC tower didn't physically allow to insert an internal CD/DVD reader. I hadn't realized until then. At first I tried to push on the front panel, thinking maybe it was going to open entirely. So I went on IRC, in a good old famous channel, to vent a bit. And they told me it was a thing: new PC towers with a slot of a CD/DVD reader are really uncommon now.

I literally didn't notice until I actually tried, after a year or so, to put a reader in the PC.

Now of course I had plenty other options: using another tower, my server (a Xeon workstation) has got a CD/DVD reader, I could ghetto-mount the internal reader temporarily while letting the tower opened, etc.

But that's not the point: internal CD/DVD readers/burners kinda went away, silently, with some of us not even noticing that PC towers suddenly didn't even offer the physical possibility to install them.

tobinfekkes•about 4 hours ago

Is this just a guise to get people to hand over their contact information? So it can be linked and associated with a GitHub profile?

It's presented as an official Microsoft product (the link), but it's just a random public-facing form hosted on Microsoft Forms from Joe Schmoe.

KomoD•about 3 hours ago

I was suspicious too, but it does seem legitimate. They're making fun of the PlayStation going digital-only for games thing. https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-produc...

ButlerianJihad•about 1 hour ago

I went shopping at Target today, and their remodeling underway has dedicated an entire display to vinyl 12" records. I know there is a popular retro thing, but this click-and-mortar dichotomy has gotten bonkers!

whalesalad•about 1 hour ago

https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad

serious_angel•about 3 hours ago

Awesome! It is indeed a marvelous merchandize concept! An effortful work of ingenious ideas and great history... sealed in a iridescent CD and signed by a supportive holder of it on public...

Thank you, for an awesome, relatively ingenious idea to preserve the history and highlight its significance in a human history, the love for discoveries and cooperation...

I love it...

zapkyeskrill•about 2 hours ago

I'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.

dfe•about 2 hours ago

https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-95_202404

shmerl•about 2 hours ago

Why not on floppy disks.

grishka•about 2 hours ago

Afaik they aren't manufactured any more

charcircuit•about 2 hours ago

So they are only going to "sell" 1000 physical discs before throwing in the towel and going back to all digital? Honestly this is worse than Sony. They should charge a fair price and continue to offer the service for people who don't have strong enough internet to checkout large repos.

dionian•about 1 hour ago

on what?

d--b•about 2 hours ago

Can we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?

usr1106•16 minutes ago

I am happy to download it. I just want to install it offline.

system2•about 1 hour ago

I want my repo on floppy disks, please.

yieldcrv•about 3 hours ago

> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.

Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week

hartator•about 3 hours ago

This is a wrong move on so many levels.

fishgoesblub•about 3 hours ago

Correct, HD DVD is the more obvious, and correct choice.

Bender•about 2 hours ago

For small repos external USB floppy drives are only $16. IBM Formatted floppy disks are $25-$30 for 10.

Insert floppy #25

I would do it just for fun.

devmor•about 3 hours ago

Elaborate? It seems like a fun joke making light of Sony’s announcement this week.

codetiger•about 3 hours ago

For a min, I thought "Github is going to be dead soon, so get your backup"

ranger_danger•about 1 hour ago

Probably because a lot of people here think it's some kind of conspiracy-level private information stealing scheme.