by bogeholm 19 hours ago
> firmware BLOBs
Nitpick, but it’s just ‘blob’ as in ‘a big blob of bytes’. It’s not an acronym or abbreviation for anything :)
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.
Wikipedia lists exactly the two cases you mention [0]:
> > Not to be confused with Binary large object (BLOB).
> In the context of free and open-source software, proprietary software only available as a binary executable is referred to as a blob or binary blob.
Big bLob Of Bytes.