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taj , to cooking in What is your favorite meal using rice?

Chicken teriyaki, or just stir fry of all sorts.

Puddy , to selfhost in [Help] Any advice on buying a domain name?

Thx for mentioning infomaniak, I’m looking for alternatives to Mailbox.org as they had to increase their prices. I’ve tried self hosting but somehow it always has been a hassle, might be just me though. Also mailinabox wasn’t around back then. I’ve got my domain at namecheap, they’ve got all the tools and a super cheap whoisguard service. Prices depend on the tld you’re looking for, so you’ll have to look it up.

DidacticDumbass OP ,

Hm, I could have looked at namecheap too. I ended up going with Porkbun because of well… it is cute and lovely. Not a great reason to choose a service, but it came highly recommended.

chungus , to selfhosted in Limiting NGINX Proxy Access on VLAN
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If they are on the same l2 network then your options are basically either to use nginx ACLs or a local firewall on the nginx host since the traffic wont traverse the firewall.

Something like iptables -I INPUT -s 1.2.3.0/24 -j DROP on the nginx host should work

fubo , to nostupidquestions in Why do people prefer cars over public transport?

We can’t sensibly talk about people’s preferences without talking about the environment in which those preferences arise.

Here are some things that are true for most car drivers:

  • The road starts right at your house. You don’t have to go anywhere to get on it.
  • Your car is right at your house whenever you want to use it. You never have to wait for it.
  • Public transit requires that you pay up-front; the costs of using your car only bother you occasionally (e.g. fueling, maintenance, taxes that pay for roads).
  • Businesses you want to visit are often required by law to provide parking for cars as part of commercial zoning.
  • Cars are the dominant vehicle on the road; other vehicles such as bicycles, motorcycles, and scooters are in many ways treated as second-class citizens.
  • Your employer didn’t choose to locate close to transit, but they did build a parking lot.
emptyother , to android in Homescreen thread
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My Nokia x20. Lawnchair launcher, whicons icon pack.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d7136d62-debf-447b-8c77-2869265a1dde.jpeg

Fubarberry , to nostupidquestions in If someone with an innie belly button were to put a toilet plunger over it and pull, how much force would they need to turn their innie into an outie?
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The “no stupid questions” content we are all here for.

Dougas , to youshouldknow in YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content

This is great but I am still unable to search for communities in kbin. At least I tried !politics and !opensource a few time the last few minutes but still no result.

pruwybn ,
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I haven’t been able to join Kbin magazines by searching in the !magazine format, but when I just paste the URL from Kbin into the search I’ve been able to add them that way.

Devastm , to startrek in UPDATED 9-3: StarTrek.website - Lemmy info, FAQ, Patreon info, future plans, and more!

Personally I think if you can customize the visuals, you guys should totally go for an LCARS style theme as that would be amazing. Maybe even get the exact typeface for it too.

h34d , to youshouldknow in YSK it's either "should have" or "should've". "Should of" is incorrect

While it is true that “should of” etc. can easily originate from a confusion between “‘ve’” and unstressed “of”, which sound identical, the statement

“Should of” is incorrect

itself is at least a bit misleading and prescriptivist in its generality.

Interestingly, there seem to be at least some native English speakers who genuinely do say “should of” (with a stressed “of”) sometimes. This paper for example argues that people who say “should of” really do use a grammatical construction of the form modal verb + of + past participle. One argument the author mentions is that this would also explain the words “woulda”, “coulda” and “shoulda”, since “of”->“a” is quite common in general (e.g. “kind of” -> “kinda”), but “'ve”->“a” basically doesn’t occur elsewhere (e.g. no one says “I’a” or “you’a” instead of “I’ve” or “you’ve”). Another is that the reverse mistake, i.e. using “‘ve’” in place of “of” (e.g. “kind’ve”), is much rarer, which is a clear difference to e.g. the situation with “they’re”/“their”/“there”, where people use these words in place of the others in all combinations frequently. I recommend this blog article for a much longer discussion.

Also, whether genuine mistake (which it almost certainly is in many cases, although probably not all) or different grammatical construction, YSK that “should of” etc. didn’t just become popular recently, but have been used for centuries. E.g. John Keats wrote in a letter in 1814: “Had I known of your illness I should not of written in such fiery phrase in my first Letter.”. Many more examples (some older as well) can be found e.g. here or here.

TL;DR: While in many cases “should of” etc. can well be a mistake, originating from the fact that it sounds identical to “should’ve” when unstressed, there is some interesting linguistic evidence that at least in some dialects of English native speakers really do say “should of” etc. (i.e. in those cases it is not a mistake, merely non-standard/dialectal).

ronaldtemp1 OP ,

Isn’t “have” either an auxiliary verb or verb and “of” a preposition?

Are these acceptable? If yes, why? If not, why not?

  • I of heard that story before.
  • Diane of already gone.
  • John ofn’t phoned, of he?
  • I ofn’t visited London before.
  • Of you seen Roz?
  • Of she been invited?
  • They still ofn’t of any news when I spoke to them yesterday.

I don’t know man, Oxford Dictionary (click Grammar Point to expand) says that www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/…/have_2

A common mistake is to write ‘could of’ instead of could have or could’ve

I could of told you that.

I could’ve told you that.

The reason for the mistake is that the pronunciation of ’ve is the same as that of of when it is not stressed. This is a common error but it is definitely considered wrong in standard English.

corsicanguppy ,

I don’t know man, Oxford Dictionary …

Tells us what’s popular; sometimes also what happens to be correct.

FreedomOfExpression ,

“Should of” is grammatically incorrect, regardless of whether the user/speaker is aware of its incorrectness. It’s a fact, and a fact per se cannot be misleading. It’s as simple as that. Linguistic conventions, as you’ve illustrated, can be formed over time, but that again doesn’t take away from the fact that such usage is grammatically incorrect to begin with.

h34d ,

Just read the second (or the first, but that is more technical) link I shared. Some native speakers do in fact seem to say “should of” even when the “of” is stressed, so in their dialect it would be grammatical.

juusukun ,

…the reason “in some dialects of English native speakers really do say ‘should of’ etc” is phonetics. Kids hear “should’ve” and repeat it phonetically, before learning the actual words or their meaning. Combine that with the awful state of education and literacy in the USA (and other countries etc) and voila, you’ve got some armchair internet expert justifying it with some big words trying a weeeee bit too hard to make it work.

Then you’ve got teachers who still gaf and know their shit who will correct this before middle/high school, and no, last I checked it was never added to the dictionary or considered correct. Language of course is living and ever changing, but the line must be drawn somewhere lest we devolve into shouting and grunts like neanderthals

corsicanguppy ,

Kids hear “should’ve” and repeat it phonetically,

This is the failure of “no child left behind”; it seems that’s all it did !

Vaggumon , to showerthoughts in Jean-Luc Picard's perfect British accent means that at some point in the future, Britts will invade France. Again.
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I’m going to be “that” nerd and explain that they do explain his accent in Season 2 of Picard. But I like your reasoning more.

Bojimbo , to nostupidquestions in If someone with an innie belly button were to put a toilet plunger over it and pull, how much force would they need to turn their innie into an outie?

Some pregnant women get outies in their second or third trimester, so there must be an amount of force that would do the same.

PutangInaMo ,

So push out from the inside. Got it.

BrotherCod , to nostupidquestions in If someone with an innie belly button were to put a toilet plunger over it and pull, how much force would they need to turn their innie into an outie?

Why use a plunger to create an outie? that seems overly complicated, just walk down to your local gas station jam the air hose up your butt for about 20 seconds, et voila, outie. The nice large, beer belly look you also obtain is just icing on the cake.

Trusting , to patientgamers in What games were so good you completed them in one sitting?

Spec Ops: The Line. I started playing it in the morning, the story kept me engaged (and the gameplay was fun enough). I played it all day to its conclusion.

Vordus ,

Ironic!

Trusting ,

Why?

Vordus ,

Because it’s a game that’s constantly telling the player that they should stop playing it. That everything is going to get worse if you do and it’s all your fault. That you’re going to cross the line again and again and again until every single person in the game is doomed. And then we play through the entire thing anyway, because it’s so fucking good.

toothpaste_sandwich , to maliciouscompliance in [REPOST] Not allowed to use the phone at the desk?

Shame that she had to go stand with the smokers though… That is, I always severely dislike breathing in other people’s smoke.

LUHG_HANI , to childfree in Welcome, reddit refugees!
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I think I’ve found more communities via ALL in the past 2 days than Reddit in 10 years.

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