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Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

#31
post #23

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?

It’s real → https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476 OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd

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

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

#33

> 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…

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

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

#34
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.

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

#35

> 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…

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

Github is in San Francisco

Re: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

#40
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.
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