Xyre comments on I keep finding these tags on trees at my university

I keep finding these tags on trees at my university (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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[–] Xyre@lemmus.org 101 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Pretty sure they're id tags for trees. Basically a way for the maintenance people to track and log data for each tree.

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[–] Portosian@sh.itjust.works 97 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

"log data"

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Gotta log the log data in a log file.

But that file gets corrupted, so you look at the binary.

So that you can log the log data log's data into a separate log file.

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[–] Klear@piefed.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

IF THAT FILE ISN'T NAMED log.log, I'M GONNA BE SO MAD!

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[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 9 points 3 weeks ago

Better organize these log.log files in a treeview.

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Perhaps something like log-44-20261013.log

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Those are the rolling files, the main log log is log.log. I insist!

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Okay, but be careful. If the log rolls uncontrollably, it might hit something.

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 point 3 weeks ago

That's part of the arborial enjoyment.

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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

You could represent the log data as a tree view.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

please hang name tags below each of these, so the trees get dignified names (such as “shady mcshade oak”) instead of just numbers

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

My university also used these to keep track of pest treatment (ground wasps). They got pretty pissed when people started removing the tags because “they hurt the trees.”

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

They should get proper ID plates with the picture and all

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