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[โ€“] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

Fewer Letters More Letters
AP WiFi Access Point
CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email
IP Internet Protocol
MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAS Network-Attached Storage
SCP Secure Copy encrypted file transfer tool, authenticates and transfers over SSH
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging
k8s Kubernetes container management package
nginx Popular HTTP server

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