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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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