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

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Post by evanmarshall »

ninjin wrote: post #48
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.

I want OpenBSD on blu-ray

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

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Post by clhodapp »

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.

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.

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

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Post by lynndotpy »

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.

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.

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

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Post by memermeme »

semilin wrote: post #50
krrishd wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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

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Post by recursivegirth »

killingtime74 wrote: post #47
paxys wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Github is in San Francisco

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

Some poor roofer is working 14 hour days in this ungodly heatwave. Burning CD's sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
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