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> 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
by jedbrooke 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo agooh I had thought it was opt-in, but it wasn’t. Yeah ignoring licenses is significantly less cool
- StilesCrisis 3mo agoSome poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a Redmond office building...
- paxys 3mo agoGithub is in San Francisco
- killingtime74 3mo agoSome poor intern is spending their summer burning CDs in a San Francisco office building...
- recursivegirth 3mo agoSome poor roofer is working 14 hour days in this ungodly heatwave. Burning CD's sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
- boca_honey 3mo agoSome 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).
- recursivegirth 3mo agoNo but your little flame war is trying to be without adding anything new to the argument. HN Guidelines: *Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.*
- fluoridation 3mo agoBut the Internet is everywhere.
- numpad0 3mo agoThere 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-Discproducer-Autoprinter-PP-100AP/s/SPT_C11CA93001 https://epson.com/Support/Other-Products/Discproducers/Epson...
- StilesCrisis 3mo agoThat isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.
- numpad0 3mo ago...no? It does both. Load fresh discs from magazine, put onto an internal disc drive, let a connected PC burn it, take out, print on it, and move it to a burned disc holder. All in one box. The networked model does it over LAN like a laser printer.
- StilesCrisis 3mo agoSuch models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely. https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_100.asp https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1... "Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"
- numpad0 3mo agooof. looks like I linked to a special printing only variant out of dozen or so models. My apologies...
- StilesCrisis 3mo agoAll the same, they don't need a thousand copies of one GitHub repo. They need a thousand different copies of various unrelated repos. Maybe some disc duplicators can handle that without constant user involvement, but all the ones I've worked with are designed around mass replication of one individual ISO.