• @DecronymABEnglish
    7•5 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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    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    LAMP Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for webhosting
    LXC Linux Containers
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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

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