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.
I 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.
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...
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 42.7 ms ] threadAm I not understanding your question? Either their archives are public on purpose, or their endpoints are simply unsecured.
[1] https://www.pixithq.com/
I worked alongside the lost&found office at an old job, we just had a spreadsheet and a book...
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.
Where? What Software? What Archive?
So many photos of peoples lock screens with clearly visible faces...