Cuddles McBubblefun

True, what I was getting at is that AIS alone doesn’t prove that there is even any ship at all.

I’ve got a huge soft spot for OpenRC, my first experience with Linux was installing Gentoo on a junker PC i’d patched together from scavenged parts in like 2007. I actually worked from a printed out version of the handbook >.<

This is mostly a nothing burger. AIS has basically zero validation built in. I’m not sure where the article is sourcing its data from, but it’s probably an open source ship tracking site.

AIS datagrams aren’t encrypted, so you can make one with any ship ID and location data you want, then create a station account on one of the open trackers and inject it.

Alternatively, you could get a cheap SDR dongle and broadcast your spoofed messages to a nearby station and let them upload it. It’s been a while since played around with SDR, but you could probably get everything you need for around $200. You’d almost certainly be breaking licensing laws doing this, for what that’s worth.

Edited to add: Looks like this article is using kpler.com, where you can sign up to be a receiver station and feed them data.

That’s one the most insanely stupid things I’ve ever heard. Tokens are a tool used to do your job, a business expense, not fucking compensation.

Are the kWh that you use to light and air condition an office part of your compensation? How about toner and paper in the office printer?

If those tokens are a bonus, they’re yours, right? So you can burn half your annual salary worth of tokens translating Microsoft Encarta 95 into Klingon, and they will foot the bill?

ooh! ooh! Can we restart the systemd wars??

https://archive.is/CV0Jt

Thomas Midgley Jr. fucked the entire world