the thing I hate the most about news like this is all the jellies screaming out "I iNsTaLlEd JeLlYfIn BeCaUsE i KnEw ThIs WoUlD hApPeN!"
we get it. you sniff your own farts.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.
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