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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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    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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    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    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)

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

    [Thread #990 for this comm, first seen 11th Jan 2026, 01:25] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]


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








  • 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.

    [Thread #982 for this comm, first seen 5th Jan 2026, 18:25] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]