Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AP	WiFi Access Point
CA	(SSL) Certificate Authority
CF	CloudFlare
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HA	Home Assistant automation software
~	High Availability
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS	HTTP over SSL
IP	Internet Protocol
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
NAT	Network Address Translation
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
a11y	A(ccessibilit)y
i18n	I(nternationalizatio)n
l10n	L(ocalizatio)n

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