[jedbrooke]

> 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

[StilesCrisis]

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

[numpad0]

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...

[StilesCrisis]

That isn't a burner at all. It prints labels onto CDs.

[numpad0]

...no? It does both.

Load fresh discs from magazine, put onto an internal disc drive, let a connected PC burn it, take out, print on it, and move it to a burned disc holder. All in one box. The networked model does it over LAN like a laser printer.

[StilesCrisis]

Such models do exist but the one you linked lacks a burner entirely.

https://tapeandmedia.com/Epson_DiscProducer_autoprinter_PP_1...

"Epson Discproducer PP-100AP Autoprinter for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc (prints only - does not duplicate disc)"

[numpad0]

oof. looks like I linked to a special printing only variant out of dozen or so models. My apologies...

[paxys]

Github is in San Francisco

[killingtime74]

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

[recursivegirth]

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

[boca_honey]

Some poor underage girl has been trafficked in the Philippines since she can remember, and it is the only life she will ever know. Roofing 14 hours a day sounds like a pretty sweet gig.

(See? Suffering is not a competition).

[recursivegirth]

No but your little flame war is trying to be without adding anything new to the argument.

HN Guidelines: *Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.*

[fluoridation]

But the Internet is everywhere.

[calvinmorrison]

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.

[jedbrooke]

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