Building An ACARS Feeder or How I Hate Containers As Packaging

If my notes are correct I've been running an ADS-B feeder for over 10 years (with over 7 years of uptime currently) and so when I ran across ACARS DRAMA recently I was immediately interested in running my own feeder. The provided instructions include a medium post and some sample configurations but are otherwise quite sparse. The general gist seems to be that the canonical method of building a…