Tower’s explanation of blobs is kind of strange and not really correct. In a general sense a binary blob is just a situation where you have open-source software that is combined with proprietary components.
Most relevant example to the meme is that the Linux kernel is open-source, but can sometimes contain drivers that are proprietary and don’t have source code available. Those proprietary drivers would be the blobs.
As a counter-example, the linux-libre kernel that devfuuu linked to, is a version of the Linux kernel that has had all the blobs removed.
It’s referring to binary blobs. A windows exe might be a binary blob.
These are distributed compiled. Even if the project is open sources, the binary blob might have been generated by a compromised compiler.
This is one of the reasons the XZ Utils compromisation went unnoticed for so long. One of the compressed files used for testing contained malicious code that would be included in the build artefacts (IE, the final compiled binary) under very narrow and specific circumstances.
So “deblobbed” means absolutely everything in the OS was built & compiled on their computer from original source code
As a noob, I genuinely can’t tell if this is real jargon or not
Tower’s explanation of blobs is kind of strange and not really correct. In a general sense a binary blob is just a situation where you have open-source software that is combined with proprietary components.
Most relevant example to the meme is that the Linux kernel is open-source, but can sometimes contain drivers that are proprietary and don’t have source code available. Those proprietary drivers would be the blobs.
As a counter-example, the linux-libre kernel that devfuuu linked to, is a version of the Linux kernel that has had all the blobs removed.
It’s referring to binary blobs. A windows exe might be a binary blob.
These are distributed compiled. Even if the project is open sources, the binary blob might have been generated by a compromised compiler.
This is one of the reasons the XZ Utils compromisation went unnoticed for so long. One of the compressed files used for testing contained malicious code that would be included in the build artefacts (IE, the final compiled binary) under very narrow and specific circumstances.
So “deblobbed” means absolutely everything in the OS was built & compiled on their computer from original source code
Thanks! I wonder if I will ever reach that level of privacy paranoia. At the rate that I’m going, maybe 5 years.
Lol tell me your computer is blobbed without telling me your computer is blobbed!
It is. https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/