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

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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…

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And the kbin.social formatting:

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Ok that’s pretty cool (good bot)

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I’d suggest adding high availability for HA

Two9A
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Added a second meaning for HA, thanks.

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

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