alt Hacker News> firmware BLOBs
Nitpick, but it’s just ‘blob’ as in ‘a big blob of bytes’. It’s not an acronym or abbreviation for anything :)
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wizzwizz4 • yesterday at 4:16 PM
Big bLob Of Bytes.
> firmware BLOBs
Nitpick, but it’s just ‘blob’ as in ‘a big blob of bytes’. It’s not an acronym or abbreviation for anything :)
Big bLob Of Bytes.
In the database world a BLOB is a Binary Large OBject ... are you sure of your etymology?
Edit: and I'm not btw - for all I know BLOB in DB land might be backronym from blob in the common usage.