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Cake day: January 5th, 2026

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

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    NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol for encrypted file transfer, over SSH
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.

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

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    MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
    ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
    ROC Range Operations Coordinator
    ~ Radius of Curvature
    RP-1 Rocket Propellant 1 (enhanced kerosene)
    SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar (increasing resolution with parallax)
    SECO Second-stage Engine Cut-Off
    SES Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, comsat operator
    ~ Second-stage Engine Start
    VPN Virtual Private Network

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

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  • 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

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

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    HASS Home Assistant automation software
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    k8s Kubernetes container management package
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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

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