Burning Man, the festival beloved by Silicon Valley’s elite, is at risk of quenched by Tropical Storm Hilary.

Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, where the event takes place each year, closed its gate due to flooding caused by the rains of Tropical Storm Hilary, The San Francisco Standard reported.

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    1 year ago

    Aww, no 3D printed blinky LED steampunk hats with an Arduino hanging off the side with code and schematic stolen from somebody’s Github while riding a penny farthing?

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      That sounds kind of…neat.

      Also, how could it be “stolen” if they pulled it from somewhere explicitly intended for sharing? License restrictions, or…?

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        Burning Man is an amazing event if you’re into that sort of thing. Some people spend years building stuff for the celebration. I know a guy who spent over a year modifying a golf cart to look like the time machine from the HG Wells book. All of his work was done in wrought iron. Then he spent the week driving around in his time machine, while smoking the biggest attached bong you’ve ever seen.

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        It doesn’t violate the license but there is definitely a tendency for people to present work as their own and not correct people when they assume they are talking to the designer instead of just a user.