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A couple of weeks ago, I posted a thread here asking whether y'all could make use of Decronym the acronym explainer bot, and reaction was positive.

I finally got around to setting up an initial version of the database earlier today, so Decronym is now running; this post links to the current list of 40 or so acronyms that have definitions, based almost entirely on acronyms that been used in the pinned "What do you selfhost" thread.

If I've made glaring errors or omissions, do let me know and the database can be updated. Otherwise, let's see how this thing fares.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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
HA	Home Assistant automation software
~	High Availability
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol for email
LXC	Linux Containers
MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
SAN	Storage Area Network
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
VPN	Virtual Private Network
a11y	A(ccessibilit)y
i18n	I(nternationalizatio)n
k8s	Kubernetes container management package
l10n	L(ocalizatio)n
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok that's pretty cool (good bot)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I like that it adds everything into one post instead of replying a dozen times. Good work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Accessing through kbin.social and the table format is not formatted correctly. Assume this is a kbin-problem, not a bot-problem, as looking at it through sh.itjust.works formats correctly...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And the kbin.social formatting:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks great, thanks! Tiny quibble, Home Assistant is two words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd suggest adding high availability for HA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Added a second meaning for HA, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since this is /c/selfhosted, it would be a good idea to add "HA - HomeAssistant, a popular automation software" to the list. Another one id "LXC - Linux Containers"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HA can stand for High Availability as well, depends on the context.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'd argue HA is more established as high availability than home assistant but that could be my networking side talking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks; inserted: HA, LXC, SAN

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How excellent for my MQTT behind nginx next to my pihole

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You make a fine point: it's case-sensitive, so it'd only see PiHole. Which I guess is fine...

It also doesn't kick in until at least five comments have been left on a thread, so as not to be spammy as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here’s another comment to get to 5.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wanna see it, so here's another comment to boost - let's get to 5 and test this bot :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll be the fifth!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TIL what an NAS is - I've only worked with SAN systems for work. Let's see about your MQTT and NGINX running 9n the PiHole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this exclusive to acronyms related to self hosting or also just general acronyms, such as TMI, PLS, YSK, TIL, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The database is domain-specific: here in /c/selfhosted, an acronym like IP (if I had that in the list) would mean something different to a database for (say) /c/legal. General acronyms like YSK aren't included.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah ok. Well anyway, maybe add protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, UDP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, SSL, VPN, Git, TLS, SQL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inserted to the list, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also the "number in the middle" gang:

K8s (kubernetes)
i18n (internationalization)
a11y (accessibility)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mm, added a few numeronyms: i18n, l10n, a11y, k8s.

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