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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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
HA	Home Assistant automation software
~	High Availability
NAT	Network Address Translation
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 6 points 4 months 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
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
Plex	Brand of media server package
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
k8s	Kubernetes container management package

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

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 4 points 4 months 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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LXC	Linux Containers
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

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

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 11 points 4 months 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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Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
IP	Internet Protocol
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
LAMP	Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for webhosting
LXC	Linux Containers
Plex	Brand of media server package
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SMB	Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
SSO	Single Sign-On
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 4 months 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
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 4 months 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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FCC	Federal Communications Commission
~	(Iron/steel) Face-Centered Cubic crystalline structure
HLS	Human Landing System (Artemis)

Jargon	Definition
Starlink	SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.

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