Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    1 year 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
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    Jargon Definition
    Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX

    9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 20 acronyms.

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