Jennifer S.18h ago
Today's book was H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. It's been over 20 years since I had read it last. I remembered most of the book pretty well. This was the first time I found it irritating. It felt verbose. Maybe it's my shorter attention span, or maybe it's that I knew the ending. Originally I was going to read The Invisible Man, but it was quickly annoying. I was hoping the book would be better than the movie version I tried to watch. It's barely better because the innkeeper woman mistook screaming as acting. That could turn anyone into a misogynist. I strongly don't recommend. #hgwells #TimeMachine #books
Show threadChrono Matthias1d ago

A piano #timemachine !

#steampunk

N-gated Hacker News6d ago
🚀 Wow, just what we needed in 2026: a time machine to the era of pixelated GIFs and flashing marquee text! 🤦‍♂️ Who needs modern web design when you can relive the glory days of dial-up and neon backgrounds in a single #Python command? 🤡
https://pypi.org/project/create-geocities-app/ #timeMachine #pixelArt #retroWeb #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
create-geocities-app

Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website in seconds

PyPI
Felix SchwarzMay 9

#TimeMachine on #macOS 26.5 still failed trying to back up to my Samba server.

The fix was to remove

fruit:time machine max size=…

from the share's smb configuration. As an alternative one can use tmutil to enforce a quota:

tmutil destinationinfo
sudo tmutil setquota [destination uuid] [quota-in-gb]

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 7
🚀 Oh, the 2004 nostalgia! Here's a riveting guide on transforming your TI-83 into a glorified paperweight with BASIC programming! 😂 Dive deep into the archives, because clearly, your time machine broke down on the way to the future! ⏳📉
https://www.ticalc.org/programming/columns/83plus-bas/cherny/ #TI83 #Nostalgia #BASICProgramming #TimeMachine #TechHumor #RetroTech #HackerNews #ngated
TI-83 Plus BASIC Programming Tutorial: A Beginners' Guide - ticalc.org

The Eclectic Light Company [Unofficial]May 7

How to make and roll back to a snapshot

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/07/how-to-make-and-roll-back-to-a-snapshot/

Nikolas KozloffApr 29
You don't need to jump in H.G. Wells' #TimeMachine #GenZ, just stop checking your #smartphone in #restaurants which is anti-social
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/discomfort-modern-technology-gen-z-desire-live-past-poll-rcna340897?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us #tech #psychology
Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past

Some members of Gen Z are feeling so pessimistic about the future of the country and modern technology that they want to hop in a time machine

NBC News
Show threadedgeworthApr 28

ok maybe I'm hitting this Samba bug in Tahoe: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1s2pfwi/if_264_breaks_time_machine/

#Apple #TimeMachine #backups #macOS

edgeworthApr 28

Does anyone use a Mac Mini as a Time Capsule with access restricted to specific users?

I'm trying to replace my Time Capsule since Apple is phasing out the Apple Filing Protocol, and I can get things working with my Mac Mini as fileserver if I leave the backup directory open to Guest users.

But I'd prefer a little more security on my local network, so I try to limit access to specific user accounts. When I do that, I get the attached error message, even though I have zero problems connecting to the network drive in Finder using the same credentials.

Is user-limited access simply not an option?

I've had zero luck finding more-detailed error messages on client or server, and searching the web so far has yielded nothing useful.

#Apple #TimeMachine #backups #macOS

Show threadTom SheppardApr 28

Since #Gemini totally borked the code I thought I'd restore from backup to get most of the code working again and to use #ChatGPT to see if it could solve the problem that Gemini destroyed the code trying to solve.

I had #Apple's #TimeMachine show me the backups but the only ones it claimed to have for that file were minutes ago and 3 days ago, which was a lie. I had to drill into the TM backup disk myself to retrieve the file. Apple software quality is total 💩.