axus 3 hours ago

Picture of a lost iPhone, with a message to call the owner at a phone number. Guess taking pictures was in the job description, and returning lost property wasn't.

RankingMember 4 hours ago

Walzr's stuff is a fun portal into an earlier era of lighthearted fun internet projects. Keep it up buddy. Bop Spotter is probably still my favorite.

ChrisArchitect 19 hours ago

scraped from....where? The Lost & Found systems are all public? Sorry I haven't had to dig something out of a lost & found that wasn't a cardboard box under a front desk or whatever...

  • happytoexplain 7 hours ago

    >Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archives

    Am I not understanding your question? It's one system - and either their archives are public on purpose, or their endpoints are simply unsecured.

  • spelk 6 hours ago

    It is scraped from Pixit. They sell lost/found, evidence + seized item management systems. [1] The listings are public; it was cool OP turned this into a mini art piece.

    [1] https://www.pixithq.com/

jmclnx 7 hours ago

I was thinking this was directory "lost+found", but it is about "lost and found" at places like airports.

  • russfink 6 hours ago

    Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.

    • stevewodil 5 hours ago

      You don’t use it, the system might in edge cases

    • jmclnx 2 hours ago

      I have had items put there a few time on an fsck. Not often but it has happened.