I get where he's coming from. There's a maritime protocol for ship location, AIS, mainly meant so ships can all have nice radar-like displays of the ships aroun

I get where he's coming from. There's a maritime protocol for ship location, AIS, mainly meant so ships can all have nice radar-like displays of the ships around them. I wrote a decoder for it for an art project, the Twitter bot @sfships. I was very concerned that somebody would take it too seriously, so I wrote: "I needed a simple AIS decoder for a small art project. I couldn’t find one, so I’m making something minimally adequate for my needs. Decoders are generated automatically from public protocol documentation, but since I use few of the fields myself, I haven’t verified much of the decoding. This code is rough and doesn’t worry much about correctness, and so shouldn’t be used for anything that matters. It especially shouldn’t be used for ship navigation." -- https://pypi.org/project/simpleais/ https://pypi.org/project/simpleais/ I can't really stop people, but at least I tried!