Yes. The Earth and its formations are art. I disagree that art requires consciousness and intent, but those admittedly do improve its value [to me]. (For reference, I value AI content/art poorly and avoid it)
We have at least established that very boring pieces, such as Andy Warhol's Empire, Kazimir Malevich's White on White, and John Cage's As Slow As Possible, are not art.
I think you're saying bad art is still art, but I'm unsure what to do with the second sentence. I'm toying with "an encoding of art is not art", which might mean that art has to be available to an audience.
All IPv4 addresses, domains (maybe more so for recently-registered ones), and subdomains from Certificate Transparency Logs (for HTTPS certs) are all constantly checked and poked.
Yes. People make software to control accounts (botting) and to farm experience in CS2. They'll later sell the accounts or use them for spamming reports against real players and other such things. So they fill up a Valve-ran casual server so real players cannot join and report the bots to Valve.
Oh wow TIL. Very interesting. And since 2014 too? Nice. They must have done that around the same time Google did it for GMail.
I wonder if it's still true. I imagine they have some Content-Security-Policy preventing it so you can't do hacks like embedding an external URL in an SVG.
That's interesting. I've seen a couple of rotated PNGs before which I assumed were caused by Discord stripping the EXIF and orientation data.
Found a PNG like that without EXIF from May 2022 so I wonder if Discord stopped stripping or if it was stripped on the person's device somewhere.
