Niklas Saers
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$362 and nothing to show for it: inside the SeeAir Kickstarter scam

In March 2023, I backed the SeeAir Tankless Dive System on Kickstarter. Compact, battery-powered underwater breathing gadget. Polished renders, a slick video, spec sheets that looked legit. $362 for the dive unit and a couple accessories. Seemed fair.

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September 6, 2007 • Photography

Jeanne a la Mogens

Mogens added some powder to the skin of this gorgeous girl...

August 9, 2007 • Technology

Auto-mount external drives on OS X

Run the following as root to make disks auto-mount during system startup. I use this to have an external disk to put my Tomcat, JBoss and MySQL logfiles on
defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool true

August 9, 2007 • Technology

No Airtunes update

Tuesday's Apple announcement held many goodies, but Apple seems to be going nowhere on Airtunes. Airport Extreme had been updated, but no Audio Out. And with my Airport Express, I cannot simply add more Airport Expresses to play the same set of music in every room of my house: Because iTunes and the Express use Apple Lossless compression to encode music (rather than native MP3 or AAC), you can stream audio to only one unit at a time (source). Dear Apple, wouldn't you make a nice little plug-this-adapter-in-the-wall-and-get-audio-out Airtunes device that I can put in every room of my house with a stereo, and throw in a remote control or two in the package?

July 23, 2007 • Technology

iPhone has BSD subsystem

When Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone would be running OS X, I thought to myself that that's just what he sais: it will have the same userinterface, but he's not going to keep the core there: the BSD subsystem. Looks like he has, though, and now people are SSH'ing into the phone. That suddenly made the whole phone very much more appealing. I'll still need 3G and a decent camera, though. ;-) At the moment, my k800i is doing both camera and MP3s all right, but then again, it has no BSD subsystem. :-)

June 29, 2007 • 100mm

Bjarke

Bjarke

May 10, 2007 • 30mm

Proud Mother

Proud Mother

May 9, 2007 • 100mm

Young one

Young one

May 8, 2007 • 100mm

They have hatched

They have hatched