GitHub @github.com 路 20d We heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd
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yo @tangled.org, when are you getting in on this 馃憖
How will you have enough uptime to copy and burn anyone's repo though
serious question, are you going to recursively include submodules?
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CDs don't last forever. Gimmick.
CD-RW so we update the fork on disc?
you misspelled "Your code was yours until we stole it to train llms"
9 days later and I'm still waiting on that CD. I submitted my form response when there was no replies to this post.
Can i get it hand scribed into vellum as well?
Brilliant! Now people can get a copy of their node_modules on physical media 馃ぃ
CD-ROM: the only way to access your GitHub repo with six 9s
"until you lose it, let's be real" is doing so much work in that announcement
If it's not HD-DVD format then gtfo.
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Super fun idea!!
Cool now pay us for the code you stole to resell as Copilot.
What is it, April 1st?
Can we also send our PR as CDs?
Isn't your parent company ditching physical media for the next Xbox? Read the room.
Is this the solution to all the outages and downtime at GitHub lately?
@pahlstrand.bsky.social look! tee-hee!
@histoftech.bsky.social totally awesome. IMO. I think a lot of folks don't have the hardware lying around for this. I wonder if there will be a new market for small devices to playback and copy CD-ROMs.