>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...
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...
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.
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.
>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...
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...
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/
Is 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...
>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.
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.
I was thinking this was directory "lost+found", but it is about "lost and found" at places like airports.
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.
You don’t use it, the system might in edge cases
I have had items put there a few time on an fsck. Not often but it has happened.
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.
He'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