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

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Post by dfe » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 1:54 AM UTC

zapkyeskrill wrote: post #36

I'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.

https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-95_202404

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

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Post by Bender » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 1:55 AM UTC

fishgoesblub wrote: post #11

hartator wrote: post #4

This is a wrong move on so many levels.

Correct, HD DVD is the more obvious, and correct choice.

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.

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

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Post by shmerl » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 1:56 AM UTC

Why not on floppy disks.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 1:58 AM UTC

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

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Post by SXX » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 1:59 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #38

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.

This is the worst part. They could actually capitalize on announcing Xbox wont drop physical media, but obviously that's not happening.

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

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Post by grishka » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC

shmerl wrote: post #43

Why not on floppy disks.

Afaik they aren't manufactured any more

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

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Post by killingtime74 » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 2:03 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #35

StilesCrisis wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Github is in San Francisco

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

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

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Post by ninjin » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 2:05 AM UTC

px1999 wrote: post #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.

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.

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

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Post by MBCook » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

1/2” open reel magnetic tape please or GTFO.

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

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Post by semilin » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

krrishd wrote: post #25

nixosbestos wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. 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 n…

In fairness, GitHub is under a corporate umbrella with Office 365

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.