CuddlesMcBubblefun

The world is riddled with maggots, the maggots are getting fat...

Undersecretary Elbridge Colby summoned the Papal Nuncio to the Pentagon, said the pope better get in line with Trump, and referenced the "Avignon Papacy", a historical event where France kidnapped and killed the pope the set a puppet Papacy.

Edit: Looking into it, the original story came from "anonymous Vatican sources", and has since been officially denied by both sides.

I mean, the DoD literally threatened exactly that

Don't fuck with Jesus... ask The Beatles.

It looks more like Jon Stewart to me

You know, I'm starting to think that maybe the "drive bay full of thermite" guy way back in the day WASN'T crazy...

Not just bipolar, but rapid cycling too!

Holy shit, I hadn't thought about Pathfinder since it first came out on DVD... I remember it being great, gonna have to go hunting now!

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