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*[2FA]: Two-factor authentication *[API]: Application Programming Interface (a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software) *[CSRF]: Cross-site request forgery *[DNS]: Domain Name Service (decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet) *[DynDNS]: Dynamic DNS record pointing to a frequently changing IP address *[DHCP]: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (network management protocol for configuring Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) hosts with IP addresses) *[DHCPv6]: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 6 (a network protocol for configuring Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) hosts with IP addresses) *[FTL]: Pi-hole's Faster Than Light daemon *[IPv4]: Internet Protocol version 4 (addresses like 192.168.0.1) *[IPv6]: Internet Protocol version 6 (addresses like 2001:db8::ff00:42:8329) *[HTTP]: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems *[HTTPS]: HTTP Secure (HTTPS), an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for secure communication over a computer network *[TCP]: Transmission Control Protocol (protocol providing reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of data between applications running on hosts communicating via an IP network) *[UDP]: User Datagram Protocol (a network communications method for sending messages as datagrams) *[PE]: Privacy Extension *[PID]: Process identifier (a number used to identify a process) *[HOSTS]: The computer file /etc/hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses *[POSIX]: Portable Operating System Interface (a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems) *[Ext2]: second extended filesystem is a file system for the Linux kernel (introduced 1993) *[Ext3]: third extended filesystem is a file system for the Linux kernel (introduced 2001) *[Ext4]: fourth extended filesystem is a file system for the Linux kernel (stable as of 2008) *[Btrfs]: B-tree file system *[JFS]: journaling file system by IBM *[XFS]: journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc *[ReiserFS]: general-purpose, journaled computer file system *[ERE]: Extended Regular Expressions *[TLD]: Top-level domain (domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet., e.g. ".com", ".org", etc.) *[IP]: Internet protocol address *[IPs]: Internet protocol addresses *[CPU]: Central processing unit, also known as "processor" *[CLI]: Command-line Interface *[OS]: Operating system *[GCC]: the GNU compiler collection (compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages) *[repo]: Repository on GitHub *[RegEx]: Regular expression *[Regex]: Regular expression *[regex]: Regular expression *[SQLite3]: Database engine that handles SQL databases in a file *[SID]: Session ID *[ID]: Identifier *[SSH]: Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network *[TFTP]: Trivial File Transfer Protocol is a simple lockstep File Transfer Protocol which allows a client to get a file from or put a file onto a remote host *[TTL]: Time-To-Live is a mechanism that limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network *[TOTP]: Time-based One-Time Password *[NAT]: Network address translation *[UTF-8]: 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format - a character encoding format capable of encoding all known 1,112,064 valid Unicode characters *[URL]: Uniform Resource Locator, commonly known as "web address" *[REST]: Representational State Transfer - a software architecture for distributed systems like the World Wide Web (WWW) *[XSS]: Cross-site scripting *[NTP]: Network Time Protocol is used to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network