#acronyms — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, the age-old question: Do you need another meaningless file type to clutter your digital junk drawer? 🤔 Spoiler alert: unless you enjoy pretending your business is a cutting-edge tech startup by adopting every acronym under the sun, llms.txt is as essential as a pet rock. 🪨✨
https://semarkglobal.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt-does-your-business-need-one #digitalclutter #meaninglessfiles #techstartup #acronyms #petrock #HackerNews #ngated

Will Boone, “ICE”, 2014, vinyl on paper, 27.9 × 21.9 cm ★ USA ★ https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/artist/will-boone #WillBoone #contemporaryart #collage #ICE #Iceout #antiICE #migrantophobiaisracismandnothingmore #civilliberties #lettrism #visualpoetry #words #acronyms #literas #DavidKordansky #2010s

Ah yes, the 'groundbreaking' ENTSO-E #report on the 2025 #Iberian #blackout - a thrilling read for those who enjoy sifting through an alphabet soup of #acronyms and #bureaucratic #jargon. 🤯 Apparently, the solution to blackouts is drowning readers in more committees and #data #portals than you can shake a PowerPoint at. 🙄⌨️
https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/ #ENTSOE #HackerNews #ngated

Unsloth's "guide" to fine-tuning #Qwen3.5 is the digital equivalent of watching paint dry, but with more #acronyms and chevrons. 🤦‍♂️🚀 If you enjoy reading a glorified list of links and buzzwords, you'll be in heaven—otherwise, pray for a faster MoE escape plan! 🏃‍♀️💨
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune #Unsloth #guide #techboredom #digitalescape #HackerNews #ngated

I have had a hard week but done very good work. I have found myself a delightful cafe in a working class suburb that has BOOKS!

I am reading Don Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words over breakfast. It was sitting in a small bookcase amongst the usual fantasy books and books about sporting greats.

I am loving the intro. After talking about the manipulation of language by totalitarian states and how the subdued masses adopt that language, Watson says:

"The same mimicry can be expected wherever the official language is a kind of code that we must at least appear to understand, or be excluded. It happens in democracies, and in business and government departments."

How often have you found when starting a new job that you ate desperately trying to use the acronyms, the phrases and names that are bandied around the office to show that you fit in, that you are a 'valuable team member'?

#jargon #acronyms #Management #TechnicalWriting #TechWriting #WriteTheDocs

@ifixcoinops
I don’t think this is “Old man shouting at cloud” - it’s a different (more lively) way of being
& it’s good to read about it. 🙂 Expands our possibilities.

Pushed me to look up IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (seen the acronym often but never knew what it stands for, but pretty sure it wasn’t International Red Cross 🫢). Learn that it’s a “text-based chat system for instant messaging… designed for group communication in discussion forums [channels] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer including file sharing.
[more here incl. refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC]

Say it again: Expands our possibilities. 😁

#IRC #InternetRelayChat #acronyms #instantMessaging #text-basedChat #GroupCommunication #discussion_forums #privateMessages #dataTransfer #FileSharing

@ifixcoinops
I don’t think this is “Old man shouting at cloud” - it’s a different (more lively) way of being
& it’s good to read about it. 🙂 Expands our possibilities.

Pushed me to look up IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (seen the acronym often but never knew what it stands for, but pretty sure it wasn’t International Red Cross 🫢). Learn that it’s a “text-based chat system for instant messaging… designed for group communication in discussion forums [channels] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer including file sharing.
[more here incl. refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC]

Say it again: Expands our possibilities. 😁

#IRC #InternetRelayChat #acronyms #instantMessaging #text-basedChat #GroupCommunication #discussion_forums #privateMessages #dataTransfer #FileSharing

@ifixcoinops
I don’t think this is “Old man shouting at cloud” - it’s a different (more lively) way of being
& it’s good to read about it. 🙂 Expands our possibilities.

Pushed me to look up IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (seen the acronym often but never knew what it stands for, but pretty sure it wasn’t International Red Cross 🫢). Learn that it’s a “text-based chat system for instant messaging… designed for group communication in discussion forums [channels] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer including file sharing.
[more here incl. refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC]

Say it again: Expands our possibilities. 😁

#IRC #InternetRelayChat #acronyms #instantMessaging #text-basedChat #GroupCommunication #discussion_forums #privateMessages #dataTransfer #FileSharing

@ifixcoinops
I don’t think this is “Old man shouting at cloud” - it’s a different (more lively) way of being
& it’s good to read about it. 🙂 Expands our possibilities.

Pushed me to look up IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (seen the acronym often but never knew what it stands for, but pretty sure it wasn’t International Red Cross 🫢). Learn that it’s a “text-based chat system for instant messaging… designed for group communication in discussion forums [channels] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer including file sharing.
[more here incl. refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC]

Say it again: Expands our possibilities. 😁

#IRC #InternetRelayChat #acronyms #instantMessaging #text-basedChat #GroupCommunication #discussion_forums #privateMessages #dataTransfer #FileSharing

@ifixcoinops
I don’t think this is “Old man shouting at cloud” - it’s a different (more lively) way of being
& it’s good to read about it. 🙂 Expands our possibilities.

Pushed me to look up IRC (Internet Relay Chat) (seen the acronym often but never knew what it stands for, but pretty sure it wasn’t International Red Cross 🫢). Learn that it’s a “text-based chat system for instant messaging… designed for group communication in discussion forums [channels] but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer including file sharing.
[more here incl. refs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC]

Say it again: Expands our possibilities. 😁

#IRC #InternetRelayChat #acronyms #instantMessaging #text-basedChat #GroupCommunication #discussion_forums #privateMessages #dataTransfer #FileSharing

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116025395253576967

Yes please! 🙏🏻 for saying this! 😁

#acronyms #bestPractice #contextMatters

Oh, look, someone decided to alphabetize their grocery list of #x86 #opcodes and call it a "guide" 😆. If you ever wanted to read a text file that feels like a random keyboard smash but with more #acronyms, this is your article! 🖥️🔍
https://www.sandpile.org/x86/opc_1.htm #grocerylist #guide #techhumor #randomkeyboardsmash #HackerNews #ngated

🚀😅 Oh look, another "revolutionary" playbook! Apparently, the secret to #success is tinier #teams with #bigger #acronyms. Because who needs actual employees when you can just have agents? 🤖🎩
https://www.latent.space/p/tiny #revolutionary #playbook #tiny #agent #tech #trends #HackerNews #ngated

31 acronyms you use all the time—what they actually stand for

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/31-acronyms-you-use-all-the-time-what-they-actually-stand-for

On the latest #ATPpodcast I heard @siracusa pronounce the HEIC image format as a word - "heek" [hiːk]. He is the first human I have heard pronounce it as a word. I feel like, for me, it will always be "H E I C".

There are several acronyms I treat this way, that I've heard others say as words, thinking about it.

PNG, SVG, BMP, IFF, SQL, URL, LED, GUI, PDF, PCMCIA (well...), etc.

I am old and set in my ways.

By the way, GIF is not on that list because I pronounce it as a word starting with a soft G, because that is how that is pronounced.

#filesystem #imageformats #files #fileextensions #acronyms #computing #linguistics #heic

🎉 Behold the riveting saga of KiCad's epic #support for Wayland! Spoiler: It's exactly as thrilling as watching paint dry. 😴 Dive deep into a sea of #acronyms, irrelevant links, and buzzwords, because who doesn't love a scavenger hunt for relevance? 🧐💤
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/ #KiCad #Wayland #TechNews #ScavengerHunt #Gaming #HackerNews #ngated

Can I make "YIL" or "TODIL" a thing? It's probably already a thing.

YIL = Yesterday I learned because I forgot to share ONCE.

TODIL = The other day I learned because I forgot to share "the other day" aka sometime in the past, maybe not even this year or this decade.

#Acronyms #TIL #YIL #TODIL

Behold! The epic quest of Tauri Verso, where #devs brave the perilous lands of #Integration ⛵️, armed with #guides, blog posts, and more #acronyms than a government agency. 🌪 What's next? A "Quick Start" guide on how to roll your eyes faster? 🎢
https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-verso-integration/ #TauriVerso #EpicQuest #HackerNews #ngated

What does "CPD" mean to you? Today, at work, I've seen it refer to both "continuing professional development" AND "cable position device". (Separate texts!)

#AmEditing #abbreviations #copyediting #initialisms #acronyms #words

I just realized that we can abbreviate Bluesky to BS. Funny much

#FediVerse #BlueSky #Acronyms #Abbreviations #SocialMedia

Gosh, what a morning @KAEEGoetheUni: trying to think with the analysis of the IPCC by Neyland & Coopmans (drawing on #ethnomethodology and #ActorNetworkTheory*) about the #IPCC** in an #environmentalSTS course. Ok, I get it, there is an issue with #acronyms in #teaching #sts. But I love it so much :)

* engaging with #London's #IndependentPoliceComplaintsCommission in doi https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12110
** the #InternationalPanelOfClimateChange