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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.

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Wtf is ventoy and why is nobody explaining it

[–] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wtf is a BLOB and why is nobody explaining it

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 18 points 1 month 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.

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