JayDee
Kevin P. FlemingA - DNS record
AA - battery
AAA - battery
AAAA - DNS record
JennyFluff 
💾@kevin but AAAA can also be a battery
Anke@JennyFluff @kevin *nodnod* the stylus for the Microsoft Surface needs those.
Niklas@JennyFluff @kevin so can A according to Wikipedia 😱
Howard Chu @ Symas@NiklasMM @JennyFluff @kevin yep. They're all dry cells. A 9V battery is just 6 AAAAs wrapped in a rectangular package.
France Jor☝️
A AA AAA (Vine)
Eloy.@JennyFluff @kevin literally had a discussion about this yesterday after someone from our assembly went to the Media Markt for AAAA batteries for a tablet pen 😂
joat@kevin TIL that A and AAAA are actually both: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ
Endless Screaming@Mabande AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Moss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{@kevin
AA a. k. a. 14500.
AA a. k. a. 14500.
Bonkers
Rua / Whitepaw &🏳️🌈🇳🇱@kevin AAAAA - fox
Esi@kevin This naming scheme for DNS actually comes from the fact that DNS Records are written in these said batteries and these batteries are then placed into the nameservers.
right?
__Miguel_
Max Effort@kevin AAAAA - Arthur Fonzarelli
ran makAAAA - uncommonly used battery and dns record
Pēteris Caune@kevin now the logical question – AAAAA: DNS record or battery?
Chris (Master of Potate) 🥔
Matija Nalis@chris
Unlikely. If there is next DNS address record, it is extremely likely going to be using a power of two (so at least "AAAAAAAA")... Originally "A" (address) DNS record is for IPv4 (which has 32 bits), and since IPv6 has 128 bits (i.e. 4 times as many bits as original one) its address record was named with 4 times as many A letters (i.e. "AAAA"). Yes, that's how we computer geeks have fun naming things! #IPv6 #DNS
@cuu508 @kevin
Unlikely. If there is next DNS address record, it is extremely likely going to be using a power of two (so at least "AAAAAAAA")... Originally "A" (address) DNS record is for IPv4 (which has 32 bits), and since IPv6 has 128 bits (i.e. 4 times as many bits as original one) its address record was named with 4 times as many A letters (i.e. "AAAA"). Yes, that's how we computer geeks have fun naming things! #IPv6 #DNS
@cuu508 @kevin
groxx
Ben Rosengart
cynicalsecurity 
Melroy van den Berg@kevin so AA and AAA batteries are therefor two and three times respectively the size of a single ipv4 address size (32 bits). This makes so much sense, thanks!
Thomas Schäfer@kevin
Don't forget:
AAA Prime (Triple A) by rating agencies.
neil okamoto@kevin Aren’t they all dry cleaning or automobile towing businesses in the local Yellow Pages directory?
@neilo My father used to work for a company that repaired TVs and other consumer electronics (decades ago, when people still did that). It was named A-Amphi TV, for the same reason.
Cyclophoratrice@kevin AAAA is also a battery you uneducated A
Chloé Raccoon
Dan JonesThe first two are also bra sizes @kevin
Duncan Blues
Space Hobo@scream @duncan_blues See, that's a sigh, not a scream.
Zhenbo Li
Roy Tam@kevin AAAA battery exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAA_battery
Brokar@kevin
AAAA.....
The sound you hear when somebody jumps off the roof because he cannot distinguish between DNS record and battery.
DeaDvey 
Mike P
🚀 Ⓛ Ⓐ Ⓤ Ⓡ Ⓔ Ⓝ Ⓣ 🛸 🪐@kevin AAAAA : Association amicale des amateurs d'andouillette authentique (Friendly Association of Lovers of Authentic Andouillette)
Patrick Schmitz@kevin all four of them are actually batteries.
@kevin
AAAAA - Andouillette (France)
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_amicale_des_amateurs_d%27andouillette_authentique
AAAAA - Andouillette (France)
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_amicale_des_amateurs_d%27andouillette_authentique
Miguel@kevin AAAAA - Scream
Adrien Plazas@kevin Batteries and DNS records not included.
Dartagnan_C
bituur esztreym
swopeI accidentally ordered AAAA batteries once. I still have them. Never seen thing that takes them.
Princess Dalius
Skro@kevin AAAAA - Sausage Appreciation Society (Association amicale des amateurs d'andouillette authentique - in French, obviously)
Sean Coates
Gary 
@kevin *ahem* cells, not batteries 😉
Ben@kevin Confusion is discovering that there was an era of stylus tech that used AAAA batteries.
Tim WIcinski@kevin These are also all Minor League Baseball leagues
Kevin Neely 
@kevin my Surface pen takes AAAA batteries. I didn't know they existed until it died and needed a replacement.
BedastGPT@kevin I had a Bamboo Ink stylus pen, which uses AAAA batteries.
Apparently there's an A size as well though. TIL
john spurling
Grégory Colpart
Jannis