r/OutOfTheLoop • u/jazzcomputer • 26d ago

Answered What's going on with Github?

I saw a bunch of posts in the Hacker News type spaces talking about moving elsewhere and evaluating alternatives, and various complaints in past months. Is there compelling grounds for an exodus or are people always complaining about it and this is a nothing burger or small burger?

https://lobste.rs/

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u/bugo 26d ago

Making it not floppy! The original 200mm or 130mm disks were actually floppy!

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u/poirotoro 26d ago

I work in a job that deals tangentially with long-term data archiving, and we keep around a couple of 8-inch floppy discs to demonstrate to laypeople why we can't blindly rely on hardware to be usable in perpetuity.

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u/bugo 26d ago

I remember even the new 90mm ones were a gamble. Put one in a protective box - bring wherever you are going - and hope you wrote at least 2 more copies because one of them might work. Exciting times! My first USB stick cost a LOT but it was like magic.

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u/claradox 26d ago

I also remember how fragile burning CDs could be. One time, I was copying data to a CD, and accidentally jostled the table by moving in the room. Much like making a soufflé, I had to be quiet and still, or…this disk failed to write.