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px1999 12 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 12 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 12 hours 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 11 hours 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.
vlovich123 10 hours ago [-]
You speculated wondering how they’ll manage it, I gave you an answer. If that ruined the fun for you, you may want to rethink how you say things on message boards.
icase 38 minutes ago [-]
you’re one of those people that actually needs /s tags, aren’t you?
jfoks 5 hours ago [-]
So many ways for splitting across multiple discs... git bundle, split tar files, etc.
Now if it came with a userfs layer that lets users disc jockey and use the repo without copying it first, with some smart mapping making disc swaps seldomly needed, then serious respect would be in order.
brador 6 hours ago [-]
This attitude is why we don’t have these things.
Increased risk profile, now they need to pass legal and finance, meetings are booked and cancelled, never seen again.
Only way to slip them past is if you’re the primary shareholder or line item on the marketing budget.
ninjin 4 hours ago [-]
Really? A cause of our societal decline is requesting a CD for a repository that is too big to fit on it? Call me a naive optimist, but I would like to believe that whoever is reading the form results on GitHub's end is more than capable to make the call within a few seconds as to whether they also would find some joy in the challenge the size poses or just ignore it and move on with their day.
evanmarshall 12 hours ago [-]
I want OpenBSD on blu-ray
paxys 12 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.
lynndotpy 12 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 11 hours 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.
SpecialistK 5 hours ago [-]
And if waterproofing or size are issues, how about a second USB-C port?
adithyassekhar 12 hours ago [-]
Samsung too (headphone jack, charger in the box). Apt username btw :)
NetOpWibby 11 hours ago [-]
Same stunt Samsung pulls when Apple does something like remove the headphone jack.
recursive 11 hours 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 11 hours 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.
recursive 10 hours ago [-]
I use Bluetooth also. But for some purposes the jack works better. Reliable audio output for the purpose of recording for instance.
SXX 12 hours ago [-]
This is the worst part. They could actually capitalize on announcing Xbox wont drop physical media, but obviously that's not happening.
clhodapp 12 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.
smgpie 6 hours ago [-]
Dont know about other places, but in my place, almost every xbox user I know already play all digitally now. Literally xbox is the first console platform to drop physical disc long before sony, though not officially stated.
It won't backfire because there is no relevant competition. A couple of complains on social media, but no drop in sales.
codezero 11 hours ago [-]
The next Xbox already dropped physical media. The rog x ally Xbox portable is the last xbox branded gaming device.
SteveNuts 11 hours ago [-]
Remember when Microsoft held a mock funeral for the iPhone? They’re all bark no bite.
altmanaltman 11 hours 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 11 hours ago [-]
I think they did. Honestly the 2 announcements seemed timed, like a mutual stand down.
sieabahlpark 12 hours ago [-]
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jedbrooke 13 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
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...
numpad0 10 hours 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.
That isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.
paxys 12 hours ago [-]
Github is in San Francisco
killingtime74 12 hours ago [-]
Some poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a San Francisco office building...
recursivegirth 12 hours ago [-]
Some poor roofer is working 14 hour days in this ungodly heatwave. Burning CD's sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
boca_honey 11 hours ago [-]
Some poor underage girl has been trafficked in the Philippines since she can remember, and it is the only life she will ever know. Roofing 14 hours a day sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
(See? Suffering is not a competition).
fluoridation 2 hours ago [-]
But the Internet is everywhere.
calvinmorrison 13 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.
endgame 10 hours ago [-]
How do we know this is real? Most online form providers will host all forms on their own domain, so it could just be a great way to get some data harvesting going on the .microsoft gTLD.
GaProgMan 8 hours ago [-]
While it's not full on 100% proof, one of the Senior Dev Advocates posted about it on Bluesky
This looks like some very finely crafted phishing.
13 hours ago [-]
nixosbestos 13 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.
Shout-out to the downvoters, may you continue filling randomly linked, MS Forms blindly from nameless accounts, eat your hearts out.
krrishd 13 hours ago [-]
In fairness, GitHub is under a corporate umbrella with Office 365
semilin 12 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.
memermeme 12 hours ago [-]
The alternative is that someone managed to hijack the official GitHub social media accounts on X, TikTok, Instagram, and Threads to post this, and four hours later, no one from the official leadership has come out to call it out. I find that hard to believe. It's probably legit.
I also heavily doubt its a joke. Shipping a thousand CDs is a drop in the bucket for a company like this. The free marketing they get from this promotion more than makes up for any cost associated with doing so.
13 hours ago [-]
vimredo 9 hours ago [-]
At the bottom: 'This content is created by the owner of the form. The data you submit will be sent to the form owner. Never give out your password.' It's very clearly just a Microsoft 365 form, and most likely it's just going to take your info and not send you a CD.
donatj 11 hours 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.
infinite_spin 13 hours ago [-]
This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless
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.
dnlosx 13 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?
But then you have to ask yourself… Is this an op… Sony and ms in cahoots to get a list of problem children?
serious_angel 13 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...
tonymet 10 hours ago [-]
It won’t boot, but someone please upload Slackware to your repo and have Microsoft burn it
ChrisArchitect 11 hours 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.
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.
ButlerianJihad 11 hours 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!
zapkyeskrill 12 hours ago [-]
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.
13 hours ago [-]
dionian 12 hours ago [-]
on what?
yieldcrv 13 hours ago [-]
> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.
Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week
d--b 12 hours ago [-]
Can we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?
usr1106 11 hours ago [-]
I am happy to download it. I just want to install it offline.
system2 11 hours ago [-]
I want my repo on floppy disks, please.
nimchimpsky 13 hours ago [-]
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hartator 13 hours ago [-]
This is a wrong move on so many levels.
fishgoesblub 13 hours ago [-]
Correct, HD DVD is the more obvious, and correct choice.
Bender 12 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 13 hours ago [-]
Elaborate? It seems like a fun joke making light of Sony’s announcement this week.
codetiger 13 hours ago [-]
For a min, I thought "Github is going to be dead soon, so get your backup"
ranger_danger 12 hours ago [-]
Probably because a lot of people here think it's some kind of conspiracy-level private information stealing scheme.
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.
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.
Now if it came with a userfs layer that lets users disc jockey and use the repo without copying it first, with some smart mapping making disc swaps seldomly needed, then serious respect would be in order.
Increased risk profile, now they need to pass legal and finance, meetings are booked and cancelled, never seen again.
Only way to slip them past is if you’re the primary shareholder or line item on the marketing budget.
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.
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
1: https://epson.com/Support/Other-Products/Discproducers/Epson...
(See? Suffering is not a competition).
https://bsky.app/profile/cassidoo.co/post/3mpp2vh3oyk2b
Through companies and schools using them for essential functions, they've normalised posting sensitive data without checking.
https://bsky.app/profile/github.com/post/3mpp2t6k4yq2j
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.
I also heavily doubt its a joke. Shipping a thousand CDs is a drop in the bucket for a company like this. The free marketing they get from this promotion more than makes up for any cost associated with doing so.
OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd
Want your 200gb game shipped on 300-400 CDs? Just pay postage & handling ;)
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.
https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-produc...
Also seems to be a lot of paranoia in here, GitHub posted it: https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476
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...
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)
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.
They're concerned about copyright for burning a public repo to a CD, but sucking up everything for AI training was ok?
Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week
Insert floppy #25
I would do it just for fun.