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.

  • Moah
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    203 months ago

    Wtf is a BLOB and why is nobody explaining it

    • @[email protected]
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      263 months 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
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      83 months ago

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