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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August 16, 2004 • Work

Strange network traffic

Hi all,
do you recognize this kind of ethernet traffic? This is the output (repeated over and over) from tcpdump

August 16, 2004 • Technology

Audacity 1.2.2 beta out

Haven't seen any blog notes about this, so: Audacity is having a prerelease of 1.2.2. Grab it here
Audacity is the open source alternative to Sound Forge, and is currently supported on OS X, *nix and Windows.

August 15, 2004 • Music

New Harpsichord

The new harpsichord at school has arrived. Due to what's called a wormhole in the wood, I'm calling him (it's CLEARLY a male instrment) Grima. Weee!! He sounds great. :) Now we just have to put the old one into shape.

August 14, 2004 • General

Summer

Nik is back in Denmark. My trip was good. The weather has been good, my book (Peter Bastian's “Inn i Musikken”) is still interesting, my <div alt=”Nomad Jukebox 3 MP3 player>Nomad

is still filled with good music (now listening to Chominciamento di gioia – Ensemble Unicorn Vienna) and the weather has been fabulous. No turbulence (although I think the pilots were having fun flying slalom every now and then ;-) ), and the correspondance with my train was just great. Straight from the plane to the train without having to hurry or wait for ages.

August 13, 2004 • General

Cocoa#

The Mono project has a new member: Cocoa#. According to their site CocoaSharp is aimed at .Net/Mono developers that want to allow their users to have a native Mac OS X application experience.

August 13, 2004 • Work

Antispoof feature in ipfw

I should be sure to include the ipfw antispoof option,
implemented by Andre Oppermann in FreeBSD's ipfw, at work

August 13, 2004 • General

Gnome 2.6 on FreeBSD

If you are installing Gnome on FreeBSD right now, you should read this article. I expect it'll be outdated fairly quickly, so if you're reading this a month from now you can probably skip it

August 13, 2004 • General

Ink-jet printing creates tubes of living tissue

Ok, this is apparently old news, but still it was new to me. newscientists.com has an article on Ink-jet printing of living. This sounds like a wonderful idea. :) Canon is apparently doing the same thing in Japan

August 9, 2004 • Work

atacontrol panic

I've had a panic with FreeBSD's ata-raid under -CURRENT the last few days, collected it all and wrote to Søren about it. A little while later, a patch pops in. It all works. :) Thanks a bunch, Søren. :)