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Cake day: January 5th, 2026
  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Dashboard for my serversEnglish
    1·
    2 hours 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
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

    [Thread #162 for this comm, first seen 13th Mar 2026, 21:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Your logging is probably downEnglish
    4·
    5 minutes 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
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    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)
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    [Thread #161 for this comm, first seen 13th Mar 2026, 11:00] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Cheapest 16x4tb NASEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

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

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    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

    [Thread #156 for this comm, first seen 11th Mar 2026, 21:50] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?English
    1·
    2 days 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
    LTS Long Term Support software version
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    Plex Brand of media server package
    SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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

    [Thread #152 for this comm, first seen 9th Mar 2026, 16:50] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s)English
    1·
    2 days 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
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    VPN Virtual Private Network

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

    [Thread #150 for this comm, first seen 9th Mar 2026, 10:40] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AIEnglish
    1·
    1 day 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
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    IP Internet Protocol
    MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
    NAT Network Address Translation
    XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging

    [Thread #146 for this comm, first seen 8th Mar 2026, 10:40] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructureEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

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

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    AP WiFi Access Point
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NAT Network Address Translation
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    Plex Brand of media server package
    PoE Power over Ethernet
    SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

    [Thread #7 for this comm, first seen 10th Jan 2026, 03:15] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]