New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc

30 years too late.

For everyone saying "I've seen this before"; yes, yes you have. It was released commercially back when optical disks were... relevant.

Released 23 years ago, discontinued 15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscT@2

Pretty sure Technology Connections has a video that mentions it.

How famous is Lemmy? The linked hackaday post seems to be from 2022, the github page had last activity 3 years ago.

Perhaps hackernews was a middlestep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208283

But otherwise it (activity) may as well originate from my recent Lemmy post: https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/post/36007202 (the old subdomain usually works as well as the API, but the native Lemmy frontend on SDF, 502 or long wait)

I've also seen Lemmy being used as a source for something on Linus Tech Tips.

Since you’re burning audio data to create the visual image, you can’t also store data, etc.

I mean it looks kind of cool but then other than that what's the point?

How to burn that? It's reported by file as SIMH tape data, Xfburn/Brasero don't recognize it as valid audio track and data burning provides no image. The software-proposed cdrecord command errors out.