[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
PSU Power Supply Unit
Plex Brand of media server package
PoE Power over Ethernet
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
NAT Network Address Translation
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx Popular HTTP server

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
VPN Virtual Private Network

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PoE Power over Ethernet
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CF CloudFlare
CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
nginx Popular HTTP server

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CF CloudFlare
DNS Domain Name Service/System
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
k8s Kubernetes container management package

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 156 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx Popular HTTP server

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS HTTP over SSL
IP Internet Protocol
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 3 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CF CloudFlare
DNS Domain Name Service/System
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NAS Network-Attached Storage
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex Brand of media server package
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
VPN Virtual Private Network

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
HA Home Assistant automation software
~ High Availability
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email
LXC Linux Containers
MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAS Network-Attached Storage
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
SAN Storage Area Network
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
VPN Virtual Private Network
a11y A(ccessibilit)y
i18n I(nternationalizatio)n
k8s Kubernetes container management package
l10n L(ocalizatio)n
nginx Popular HTTP server

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