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Cake day: January 5th, 2026
  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Home server on old android phones?byDecronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    6 minutes

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

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    DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

    [Thread #109 for this comm, first seen 21st Sep 2026, 07:00] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Where to start with setting up my own server?byDecronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    2 hours

    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
    IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    PSU Power Supply Unit
    Plex Brand of media server package
    PoE Power over Ethernet
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    [Thread #108 for this comm, first seen 21st Sep 2026, 05:00] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Email for self hosted services? (Not personal email)byDecronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    9 hours

    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
    IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    LXC Linux Containers
    SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    k8s Kubernetes container management package

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

    [Thread #106 for this comm, first seen 19th Sep 2026, 02:10] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How "secure" is your setup?byDecronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    22 hours

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

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    CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAT Network Address Translation
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
    VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    [Thread #105 for this comm, first seen 16th Sep 2026, 06:30] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Hosting external servicesbyDecronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    20 hours

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

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    CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    NAT Network Address Translation
    Plex Brand of media server package
    SSO Single Sign-On
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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

    [Thread #103 for this comm, first seen 13th Sep 2026, 06:00] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•AI bot hacking/scraping Home AssistantbyDecronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzbot accountEnglish
    2 days

    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
    ISP Internet Service Provider
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPN Virtual Private Network

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

    [Thread #102 for this comm, first seen 11th Sep 2026, 19:50] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]