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Re:An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393... by scrollaway on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:39AM (#32924987)
NFC is near-field communication, a system your bank cards and modern smartphones use for transmitting data over very short distances.

Maybe you’re thinking of NFS? ;)

Re:An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393... by kube-system on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:46AM (#32925077)
NFS is network file system, a system for computers to access files from other computers over a network.

Maybe you're thinking of NFL?

Re:An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393... by endofreach on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:27AM (#32925618)
NFL is the national football league. They play a game called football even though they seem to be carrying the ball with their hands, most of the time. Seems important in the US…

Maybe you're thinking of NFV?

Re:An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393... by fennecfoxen on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:03AM (#32926166)
Network firewall virtualization certainly could be built on top of a new microkernel in Rust, such as this one, and it may gain some benefits in correctness — but looking at its site, the datacenter networking space doesn't really seem to be part of Redox's core ambitions.

Perhaps you're thinking of NAFTA?

Re:An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393... by alexvoda on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:07PM (#32943973)
NAFTA was the North American Free Trade Agreement.

This was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. Even if you could make use of it, it ended in 2020.

Perhaps you're thinking of NFO?

Re:An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393... by permo-w on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:02PM (#33089000)
NFO is the National Farmer's Organization, an American farmer's organisation with the stated goal of obtaining higher prices for farm produce

perhaps you're thinking of .nfo?

Re:An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393... by mindcrime on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:57PM (#33088934)
NFO is the National Farmer's Organization, a producerist movement founded in the United States in 1955.

Perhaps you're thinking of NeWS?