Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-QjDxUQkdTTjZLU0EyTFFRV1E3NVRTVTRTWjRHMy4u&route=shorturl

by throwaway2027 • 20 days ago

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tobinfekkes• 20 days ago

Is 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• 20 days ago

I 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://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-produc...

hartator• 20 days ago

This is a wrong move on so many levels.

devmor• 20 days ago

Elaborate? It seems like a fun joke making light of Sony’s announcement this week.

codetiger• 20 days ago

For a min, I thought "Github is going to be dead soon, so get your backup"

ranger_danger• 20 days ago

Probably because a lot of people here think it's some kind of conspiracy-level private information stealing scheme.

fishgoesblub• 20 days ago

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

Bender• 20 days ago

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.

infinite_spin• 20 days ago

This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless

jedberg• 20 days ago

For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.

jedbrooke2• 20 days 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

calvinmorrison• 20 days ago

Not 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.

jedbrooke2• 19 days ago

oh I had thought it was opt-in, but it wasn’t. Yeah ignoring licenses is significantly less cool

StilesCrisis4• 20 days ago

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

paxys2• 20 days ago

Github is in San Francisco

numpad04• 20 days ago

There 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...

serious_angel• 20 days ago

Awesome! 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...

mikrl• 20 days ago

One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage

penr0se• 20 days ago

Excellent choice, sir

Klonoar• 20 days ago

Finally, I can get Ubuntu on a CD.

whalesalad2• 20 days ago

Back in the day I ordered the free disks by the hundreds

catlifeonmars• 20 days ago

Is this the one with a hash collision?

razighter777• 20 days ago

Excellent choice, the "Merge tag 'net-7.2-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net".

skinfaxi• 20 days ago

Bold of them to call out another company when they haven't been doing well in the court of public opinion themselves lately.

yieldcrv• 20 days ago

Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.

Microsoft discontinuing physical copies in one week

cadamsdotcom• 20 days ago

Good 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 ;)

joshawash• 20 days ago

This looks like some very finely crafted phishing.

nixosbestos• 20 days ago

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 nameless accounts, eat your hearts out.

krrishd• 20 days ago

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

schappim• 20 days ago

This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?

dnlosx• 20 days ago

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?

guessmyname• 20 days ago

It’s real → https://x.com/github/status/2072801888525840476

OP should have used the shortened, more official-looking, link: https://gh.io/cd

aetherspawn• 20 days ago

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

xena• 20 days ago

I requested the code for Anubis, I'll keep you all updated on what I get!

px1999• 20 days ago

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.

ninjin3• 20 days ago

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.

evanmarshall• 20 days ago

I want OpenBSD on blu-ray

vlovich1232• 20 days 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.

esalman• 19 days ago

I went to our pediatric ophthalmologist's office yesterday. There was another young person in the room, and our doctor asked if we mind if she's scribing.

When leaving I commented that I like that the doctor is using a human scribe and not an AI. Both of them were beaming.

Few weeks ago at a casual office gathering we were discussing given the choice do we hire an intern or get more AI credits. It was clear that hiring an intern is the right move for the industry, even if it results in an abandoned repo or two at the end of Summer. Especially now that AI shovel sellers have realized small teams are willing to spend on AI credits instead of $5000 a month on an intern, and are adjusting the prices accordingly.

All of these are more humane experiences we should not lose out on.

zapkyeskrill• 20 days ago

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

dfe• 20 days ago

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

paxys2• 20 days ago

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.

SXX• 20 days ago

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

clhodapp• 20 days ago

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.

lynndotpy• 20 days ago

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.

adithyassekhar• 20 days ago

Samsung too (headphone jack, charger in the box). Apt username btw :)

SpecialistK2• 20 days 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.

NetOpWibby• 20 days ago

Same stunt Samsung pulls when Apple does something like remove the headphone jack.

recursive2• 20 days ago

Headphone jack mentioned. I'm not going to stop buying phones based on them until there are no such options remaining, God forbid.

SteveNuts• 20 days ago

Remember when Microsoft held a mock funeral for the iPhone? They’re all bark no bite.

codezero• 20 days ago

The next Xbox already dropped physical media. The rog x ally Xbox portable is the last xbox branded gaming device.

protocolture• 20 days ago

I think they did. Honestly the 2 announcements seemed timed, like a mutual stand down.

altmanaltman• 20 days ago

There might not be a next xbox since Microsoft has been slowly moving away from the console idea to the platform idea with xbox.

usr11065• 20 days ago

It won't backfire because there is no relevant competition. A couple of complains on social media, but no drop in sales.

smgpie• 20 days ago

Dont know about other places, but in my place, almost every xbox user I know already play all digitally now. Literally xbox is the first console platform to drop physical disc long before sony, though not officially stated.

lIl-IIIl• 20 days ago

I remember this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

recursive4• 20 days ago

I'd settle for one day without a SEV.

charcircuit• 20 days ago

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.

shmerl• 20 days ago

Why not on floppy disks.

grishka• 20 days ago

Afaik they aren't manufactured any more

MBCook• 20 days ago

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

defrost• 20 days ago

If 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• 20 days ago

It’s like when I bought HTMX 2.0 release on floppy

d--b• 20 days ago

Can we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?

usr11065• 20 days ago

I am happy to download it. I just want to install it offline.

whalesalad2• 20 days ago

https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad

dionian• 20 days ago

on what?

sn0n• 20 days ago

But then you have to ask yourself… Is this an op… Sony and ms in cahoots to get a list of problem children?

H501• 20 days ago

I hope Linus orders a CD of the Linux kernel.

usr11065• 20 days ago

It does not fit on a CD.

bigfishrunning• 20 days ago

A kernel tarball is 266 megabytes, it fits on a CD

g-b-r• 20 days 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• 20 days ago

I 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.ub...

usr11065• 20 days ago

Yeah, 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• 20 days ago

I 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• 20 days ago

I want my repo on floppy disks, please.

TacticalCoder• 20 days ago

So 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• 20 days ago

Given the hour this is making headlines, they'll be posting a lot of CDs to the antipodes.

donatj• 20 days ago

Ever 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• 20 days ago

Similar: 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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768873)

tonymet• 20 days ago

It won’t boot, but someone please upload Slackware to your repo and have Microsoft burn it

endgame• 20 days ago

How 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• 20 days ago

While 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

oliwarner• 20 days ago

I 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• 20 days ago

At 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• 20 days ago

Is it some silly attempt to gather personal data like physical address/phone number?

meszmate• 20 days ago

Just placed an order for mine

thebiblelover7• 20 days ago

Seems like GitHub posted this on their official Bluesky account for those wondering if it's official:

https://bsky.app/profile/github.com/post/3mpp2t6k4yq2j

lloydatkinson• 20 days ago

But 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

devld• 20 days ago

Can you order chromium source if you contributed a few commits?

prmoustache• 20 days ago

Is that a move to obtain physical address of some people without the bad press of requiring it in their github account?

butz• 19 days ago

Nice try, Microsoft. You ain't getting any of my personal data.

ksec• 19 days ago

Unfortunately they don't last very long. Most DVDs are unreadable after 10 to 20 years.

hrtk• 17 days ago

How do I know this is real from GitHub ? Isn't it just a microsoft form that anyone can create ?

Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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