27 points by walz 16 hours ago | 6 comments
  • 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/

    • >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.

  • 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