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Replying to @DanKhramov@lemmy.world
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email LTT Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel LXC Linux Containers RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SSD Solid State Drive mass storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access VPN Virtual Private Network ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity nginx Popular HTTP server9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.
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