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  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    10 months ago

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

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    LTS Long Term Support software version
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
    k8s Kubernetes container management package
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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

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