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Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo
- mikrl 4mo agoOne Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage
- penr0se 4mo agoExcellent choice, sir
- Klonoar 4mo agoFinally, I can get Ubuntu on a CD.
- whalesalad 4mo agoBack in the day I ordered the free disks by the hundreds
- catlifeonmars 4mo agoIs this the one with a hash collision?
- razighter777 4mo agoExcellent choice, the "Merge tag 'net-7.2-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net".
- tobinfekkes 4mo agoIs 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 4mo agoI 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://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476 https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/ https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-produc...
- hartator 4mo agoThis is a wrong move on so many levels.
- devmor 4mo agoElaborate? It seems like a fun joke making light of Sony’s announcement this week.
- codetiger 4mo agoFor a min, I thought "Github is going to be dead soon, so get your backup"
- ranger_danger 4mo agoProbably because a lot of people here think it's some kind of conspiracy-level private information stealing scheme.
- fishgoesblub 4mo agoCorrect, HD DVD is the more obvious, and correct choice.
- Bender 4mo agoFor 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.
- infinite_spin 4mo agoThis feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless
- jedberg 4mo agoFor those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.
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- jedbrooke 4mo 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 https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault
- calvinmorrison 4mo agoNot 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.
- jedbrooke 4mo agooh I had thought it was opt-in, but it wasn’t. Yeah ignoring licenses is significantly less cool
- StilesCrisis 4mo agoSome poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...
- paxys 4mo agoGithub is in San Francisco
- killingtime74 4mo agoSome poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a San Francisco office building...
- recursivegirth 4mo ago
- serious_angel 4mo agoAwesome! 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...
- skinfaxi 4mo agoBold of them to call out another company when they haven't been doing well in the court of public opinion themselves lately.
- yieldcrv 4mo ago> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026. Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week
- cadamsdotcom 4mo agoGood 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 ;)
- nimchimpsky 4mo ago[dead]
- joshawash 4mo agoThis looks like some very finely crafted phishing.
- nixosbestos 4mo agoRather 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 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 4mo agoIn fairness, GitHub is under a corporate umbrella with Office 365
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- semilin 4mo agoThis 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 4mo agoThe 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.
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- schappim 4mo agoThis seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?
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- dnlosx 4mo agoIs 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 4mo agoIt’s real → https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476 https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476 OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd https://gh.io/cd
- aetherspawn 4mo agoCompared the form ID in original submission and after redirect and it looks ok…
- xena 4mo agoI requested the code for Anubis, I'll keep you all updated on what I get!
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- px1999 4mo agoInitially 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 4mo agoFelt 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.
- evanmarshall 4mo agoI want OpenBSD on blu-ray
- vlovich123 4mo 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 4mo agoRiddle 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.
- zapkyeskrill 4mo agoI'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.
- dfe 4mo agohttps://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-95_202404 https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-95_202404
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- paxys 4mo agoFun 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.
- SXX 4mo agoThis is the worst part. They could actually capitalize on announcing Xbox wont drop physical media, but obviously that's not happening.
- clhodapp 4mo agoThe 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.
- lynndotpy 4mo agoIt reminds me of Google proudly boasting their headphone jack when Apple removed theirs, then OnePlus proudly boasting their headphone jack when Google removed theirs.
- adithyassekhar 4mo agoSamsung too (headphone jack, charger in the box). Apt username btw :)
- SpecialistK 4mo 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 4mo agoAnd if waterproofing or size are issues, how about a second USB-C port?
- sieabahlpark 4mo ago
- recursive4 4mo agoI'd settle for one day without a SEV.
- charcircuit 4mo agoSo 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.
- shmerl 4mo agoWhy not on floppy disks.
- grishka 4mo agoAfaik they aren't manufactured any more
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- MBCook 4mo ago1/2” open reel magnetic tape please or GTFO.
- defrost 4mo agoIf 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.
- geophph 4mo agoIt’s like when I bought HTMX 2.0 release on floppy
- d--b 4mo agoCan we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?
- usr1106 4mo agoI am happy to download it. I just want to install it offline.
- whalesalad 4mo agohttps://github.com/left-pad/left-pad https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad
- dionian 4mo agoon what?
- sn0n 4mo agoBut then you have to ask yourself… Is this an op… Sony and ms in cahoots to get a list of problem children?
- H501 4mo agoI hope Linus orders a CD of the Linux kernel.
- usr1106 4mo agoIt does not fit on a CD.
- bigfishrunning 4mo agoA kernel tarball is 266 megabytes, it fits on a CD
- usr1106 4mo agoA terball does not contain git history.
- g-b-r 4mo 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?
- chazeon 4mo agoI 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.ubuntu.com// https://web.archive.org/web/20090219122023/https://shipit.ub...
- usr1106 4mo agoYeah, 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.
- ButlerianJihad 4mo agoI 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!
- system2 4mo agoI want my repo on floppy disks, please.
- TacticalCoder 4mo agoSo 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.
- ctippett 4mo agoGiven the hour this is making headlines, they'll be posting a lot of CDs to the antipodes.
- donatj 4mo agoEver 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.
- ChrisArchitect 4mo agoSimilar: 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://twitter.com/Dominos_UK/status/2072602429959340517 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768873)
- tonymet 4mo agoIt won’t boot, but someone please upload Slackware to your repo and have Microsoft burn it
- endgame 4mo agoHow 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 4mo agoWhile it's not full on 100% proof, one of the Senior Dev Advocates posted about it on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/cassidoo.co/post/3mpp2vh3oyk2b https://bsky.app/profile/cassidoo.co/post/3mpp2vh3oyk2b
- oliwarner 4mo agoI hate how Office 365 forms have no simple way to verify where your data is going. Through companies and schools using them for essential functions, they've normalised posting sensitive data without checking.
- vimredo 4mo agoAt 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.
- Panzerschrek 4mo agoIs it some silly attempt to gather personal data like physical address/phone number?
- meszmate 4mo agoJust placed an order for mine
- thebiblelover7 4mo agoSeems like GitHub posted this on their official Bluesky account for those wondering if it's official: https://bsky.app/profile/github.com/post/3mpp2t6k4yq2j https://bsky.app/profile/github.com/post/3mpp2t6k4yq2j
- lloydatkinson 4mo agoBut most repos are over ~700MB. Surely a DVD and if not, why not? Also seems to be a lot of paranoia in here, GitHub posted it: https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476 https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476
- devld 4mo agoCan you order chromium source if you contributed a few commits?
- prmoustache 4mo agoIs that a move to obtain physical address of some people without the bad press of requiring it in their github account?
- butz 4mo agoNice try, Microsoft. You ain't getting any of my personal data.
- ksec 4mo agoUnfortunately they don't last very long. Most DVDs are unreadable after 10 to 20 years.
- hrtk 4mo agoHow do I know this is real from GitHub ? Isn't it just a microsoft form that anyone can create ?