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submitted 2 days ago by SatyrSack@lemmy.one to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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[-] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago

Wtf is a BLOB and why is nobody explaining it

[-] Tamo240@programming.dev 27 points 1 day ago

Binary Large OBject

Basically any binary file, often objected to in open source repos because of the lack of source and 'openness'. See also the recent xz backdoor.

[-] Disregard3145@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Binary data. In the case of lz it was a carefully "corrupted" archive.

[-] spikespaz@programming.dev -2 points 19 hours ago

Because you can look it up.

this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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