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Lost and Found
- rvba 2mo agoSomething is wrong with this websites scroll. Perhaps due to pictures loading. It feels that you scroll but see the same pictures.
- zyralab 2mo agovery simple design... makes scrolling the page faster.
- ChrisArchitect 3mo agoscraped 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 2mo 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 2mo agoIt 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/ https://www.pixithq.com/
- marysol5 2mo agoIs there really enough market for an actual software solution like this? I worked alongside the lost&found office at an old job, we just had a spreadsheet and a book...
- jmclnx 2mo agoI was thinking this was directory "lost+found", but it is about "lost and found" at places like airports.
- russfink 2mo agoGo ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoI think the most common use case was when a file descriptor was still open in some process, but the file itself had been completely unlink'd from the filesystem. Most often it was some sort of temporary file. Anyway the /lost+found link would be its inode number, I think. And then you could recover it after fsck had relinked it into the hierarchy. It would have to put them there, because it had no idea what pathname it had used when it was a real file.
- stevewodil 2mo agoYou don’t use it, the system might in edge cases
- jmclnx 2mo agoI have had items put there a few time on an fsck. Not often but it has happened.
- RankingMember 2mo agoWalzr'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.
- bobbiechen 2mo agoHe's right up there with Neal Agarwal (neal.fun) and Nolen Royalty (eieio.games) for me. I recently got to interview Nolen on keeping the internet fun and creative for my blog: https://digitalseams.com/blog/nolen-royalty-on-making-things https://digitalseams.com/blog/nolen-royalty-on-making-things
- axus 2mo agoPicture 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.
- marysol5 2mo ago>When something turns up at a stadium or an airport, staff photograph it, log it, and wait. Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archives: thousands of accidental portraits of lost stuff. Where? What Software? What Archive? So many photos of peoples lock screens with clearly visible faces...