alt Hacker NewsOrder a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
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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.
> 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
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.
For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.
One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage
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...
Given the hour this is making headlines, they'll be posting a lot of CDs to the antipodes.
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)
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?
This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless
It’s like when I bought HTMX 2.0 release on floppy
Bold of them to call out another company when they haven't been doing well in the court of public opinion themselves lately.
I hope Linus orders a CD of the Linux kernel.
> 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?
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.
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 ;)
This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?
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!
But then you have to ask yourself… Is this an op… Sony and ms in cahoots to get a list of problem children?
I requested the code for Anubis, I'll keep you all updated on what I get!
I'd settle for one day without a SEV.
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.
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...
I'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.
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.
on what?
I want my repo on floppy disks, please.
> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.
Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week
Can we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?
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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.