stonegray

Just waiting for the followup post on HN: How I sent CO2 warnings to my entire office using an ESP32

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> I didn’t google that because the actual maximal size doesn’t matter since no single disk will have 281 Terabytes of space.

You can buy 245TB SSDs right now and while not yet commonplace there are multiple companies making drives of that size.

Curious, what was the project?

The playa flooded that year so we started late and were still working when the closure expired. A video of us working claiming that’s how we left it is disingenuous; otherwise what are we still doing there?

In a way it’s proof that we did in fact leave it clean; anybody doing a hit piece like that would 100% have included video of post-resto trash if they were able to find any.

Yes, we clean up glitter, paint chips, oil stains, rust debris, etc.

> “and is writable with CAP_SYS_ADMIN”

Am I reading this wrong or is this just a way of executing an arbitrary binary with uid=0 if you have both CAP_NET_ADMIN and CAP_SYS_ADMIN?

If you can write modprobe_path, is it really news that you can find a way to execute code?

My tactic is walking around barefoot then having a "oh no" moment when I get to my tent and realize I have no plan to get the mud off my feet :)

I'm a volunteer, there are both volunteer and paid roles

Yeah, we definitely have a lot of great moments together, that's the biggest reason I come back. But otherwise, I imagine it's very different. We stay in the city and bus in each day. I had a dishwasher the year before last so doubt it's the same wilderness feel.

We use tablets running custom software for everything

I’ve done this for a couple years now, cool to see it pop up here. I believe the scale is a touch larger; 3935 acres in 2025, plus a small amount outside the fence line.

On the technical side, we not only log but photograph everything, down to each clump of toilet paper. We check our progress by doing hundreds of tests identical to what the BLM does, both ahead and behind our main crew; bagging up any debris to be photographed on green screens where the pixels are counted to ensure we’re under the 2.29×10^-3 percent limit.

It’s a stupendous amount of walking, with no shade, a moop stick and a bucket. But it’s a hell of a feeling to be part of making sure we remain undefeated against an impossible task that the future of burning man depends on.

The analog version still exists, and gets hand updated every day (though we don’t upload photos). You can visit it the following year at the appropriately named camp, Moop Map.

Steam download rates are throttled based on how fast it can actually install the game so it’s a bit of an outlier