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tobinfekkes 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo

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 26 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...

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