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  • ChrisArchitect 15 hours

    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...

    spelk 2 hours

    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/

    happytoexplain 3 hours

    >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.

  • jmclnx 3 hours

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

    russfink 2 hours

    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 1 hours

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