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 12, 2004 • Blogs

Customizing Gallery 2

In a response to an ongoing discussion at Binary Bonsai, I decided to implement Gallery 2 for Kubrick. Estimated time: 30 minutes. This is not Vanilla Kubrick, this is my bastardized version, I just copy-pasted most of the plain HTML and made sure all the CSS was in the CSS file. Reason being, { and } are "smart tags" in Gallery 2. Ok, so let's go.

September 11, 2004 • Technology

VST server in PD for FreeBSD

I'll definetly need to read Using VST/VSTi Plugins In Linux when I'll want to do the same for FreeBSD. Just reinstalling 5.3BETA3 on my laptop to make it my power music-station. Yeah, it's still the 400 Mhz thingy. ;-)

September 8, 2004 • Technology

Robotic Barkeeper

Paul Lamere can tell about a robotic barkeeper that will serve you a drink at a spoken request, and tell jokes while it's making them. :) I'm hoping that version two can juggle the bottles, make recommendations, improvise new drinks depending on the users, eh, customers mood and send drinks to the girl in that sparkling red top. ;-) And of course, I expect it to pass all sanetary tests. How often do you wash your hands, little robot? ;-)

September 7, 2004 • Work

PHP regex problem

PHP allows the use of the PCRE library, but PHP5 comes with an interesting, undocumented twitch: You have to add -with-pcre-regex if you want to use preg_match(), a quite commonly used function. With PHP4, all you did was -with-pcre and you got the whole package, and the -with-pcre-regex is undocumented in the configure program of PHP5 which is where people look for this.

September 7, 2004 • General

Rape of Kosovo

She cradled him to her chest, she looked into her boy's eyes, she stroked his face and she snapped his neck. This is The Observer writing on systematic rape in Kosovo where 4.4% of the female population were systematically raped during the Balkan war. This article is long and horrible in detail, is about the consequences and what was hushed down, and should definetly be read.

September 6, 2004 • General

Change your hair

This hair styling test is great! :-)

September 6, 2004 • Blogs

Credit problem

Dear all, I'm having a problem giving correct credit to the blogs where I find links with interesting content. Each day I read my newsfeed of ~160 feeds. While reading it, I spawn 30 or so background tabs, and if I find something I really want to blog about, I blog about it. Finding BACK to what entry I clicked from takes much time this way, and thus it's all to easy to give less credit than what I'd like to. So, I was wondering if you have any suggestions for SIMPLE solutions that would allow a user to know where the page he's coming from originates from?