CoffeeZilla is a popular youtuber who investigates scams and shady practices from other creators, criminals, scammers, and large companies (he recently even managed to get SBF to accidentally admit to fraud in a long phone call interview, which is now on YouTube). 

Recently, CoffeeZilla investigated Logan Paul for a cryptocurrency rug pull (a common type of scam on DeFi where the owner of the token pumps up the price and leads people to believe that the coin will be successful long term, only to sell a significant amount of their holdings when the price is up and to crash the price of the token.) What was interesting in this case was that the token was not publicly available when Logan Paul and the development team started purchasing their tokens, which meant that they could buy them at an extremely low price before anyone else was able to know that the token existed. This pretty much guaranteed that they were going to make a lot of money when the price went up, provided they didn't manage to sabotage themselves in the process (which, since they apparently hired criminals to do the development process, didn't quite work out as planned). 





What's really cringeworthy, however, is Logan Paul's reaction. It's pretty much entirely ad-hominem, attempting to attack CoffeeZilla's credibility while not actually debunking any of the allegations whatsoever. Furthermore, him admitting that "NFTs are just pictures" and that he "hired criminals to do the development process" isn't really a good look for him, especially since he spent so much time pumping up his NFTs as being more than this and was attempting to pass off the blame for the project's failures despite being the one responsible for it (hiring criminals doesn't exactly make YOU look better). 



I have mixed views about Logan Paul. I want to see him succeed and always like a good comeback story, but I have a feeling this controversy is probably going to be a bit harder to get rid of than he thinks. If he apologized and said "look, we hired criminals, we weren't aware that this was going to happen this way and we are sorry," the community might have been more forgiving (still not a good look, he should have known better, but it wouldn't have dug him into a deeper hole as he's doing now). But attacking CoffeeZilla publicly and then threatening baseless legal action isn't a particularly good look for him, and it's going to be something that's hard to backtrack for him.

Apparently, Reddit is absolutely roasting him for this too.

What are your thoughts?

The Facebook group Meta must pay a fine of 390 million euros for the use of personal data. The decision goes back to three complaints from 2018.

“Instead of a yes/no option for personalized ads, they simply moved the opt-in clause to the terms and conditions. This is not only unfair, but clearly illegal. We don’t know of any other company that has tried to ignore the General Data Protection Regulation in such an arrogant way,” says Max Schrems, founder of data protection NGO noyb.

In concrete terms, the Facebook group Meta, which also owns the social network Instagram and the messaging service WhatsApp, used personal data to display personalized advertisements.
https://todaytimeslive.com/economy/192668.html

I've spent a lot of time writing songs over the years. The melodies and the instrumental parts usually come to me in bursts of inspiration and evolve as I'm recording the different parts, but lyrics are different in that I'll sit down and work on them for a few hours at a time. Sometimes there's writers block, and that can be a big challenge, especially when writing more poetic works. 

Over the past few years, I started purposefully writing more of my lyrics on days when I'm much more sleep deprived. I've noticed that it tends to reduce my inhibitions and I tend to be less critical of what I'm writing, which allows more creative lyrics and ideas to flow. I do, of course, have to revise them later, but sometimes the initial drafting process comes together much more easily. 

When do you find that you're the most creative? Have you ever tried writing through more tiredness than usual as a means of boosting creativity in your ideas?

Personally, VS Code remains my "daily driver" - but I did install Geany for the times that I want something Notepad++-like. Geany is nice because it's much more lightweight for editing files that aren't a part of a project (such as a quick config change, or to draft something that is about to be copy/pasted onto a server). 

What code editors do you use, and why?

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Pro Rally Driver and Hoonigan Founder Ken Block Killed in Snowmobile Accident
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a42381...lock-dead/

R.I.P

Youtube is pretty much saturated with content on just about any category these days, but there are still some very creative channels that are very entertaining and sometimes educational. I'm a big fan of Mr. Beast, Linus Tech Tips, and Practical Engineering. PBS Space Time is also very interesting, alongside a number of other educational channels. 

What channels do you watch most often on YouTube?

Hey everyone, Under My Skin here! I saw a link to this forum on OffTopix and decided to join because I'm always looking forward to meet and chat with new people. Nice to meet you all and see you all around! 

Cheers new Year
I wish you a happy new year 2023

There's tons of ways to store tools depending on the equipment!
for me I've recently been making tool rolls because they're better for organizing than toolboxes, a bit easier to carry, and make a nice tradeoff of slightly more space in exchange.
For example here's the first one I got for organizing my wrenches.  I bought that one but learned I overpaid for something that's made quite easily with a sewing machine.



It's nice because it's made of waxed canvas which is fairly durable and has tie straps I can use to secure it closed plus it fits a decent sized set of metric and imperial wrenches which I keep under the back seat of the jeep.
since then I've learned how to make my own which as it turns out is both affordable and handy.
for smaller stuff I use pouches like for my lockpicks or smaller individual tools which I keep on my bandolier.



there are cases where larger containers make sense like at a workbench but I like tool rolls personally.

so how do you guys store your tools and gear?