Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE

Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by sradman on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:34AM (#24916546)

Blob-free [1]:

> A proprietary device driver is a closed-source device driver published only in binary code. In the context of free and open-source software, a closed-source device driver is referred to as a blob or binary blob.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_device_driver

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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by Uehreka on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:11AM (#24919647)

I always thought Blob stood for Binary Large OBject, so wouldn’t “Binary Blob” be like “PIN Number”?

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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by WGH_ on Thursday November 05, 2020 @02:08PM (#25000957)

Sometimes tautology helps understands acronyms faster, without having to reconstruct context.

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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by alexdw_mgzi on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:24AM (#24919805)

I think "blob" is being used in this case to refer to a "large undifferentiated mass".

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Re:Nutcracker Challenge: Blob-Free WiFi and BLE by bityard on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:26PM (#24921557)

The article was seeking to describe usage of the word(s), not the origin.

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