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  • 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
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
    SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    k8s Kubernetes container management package

    8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

    [Thread #834 for this sub, first seen 27th Jun 2024, 04:45] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]


  • 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
    CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAT Network Address Translation
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    SSO Single Sign-On
    TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    [Thread #830 for this sub, first seen 26th Jun 2024, 04:45] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]