It is a context issue, but not quite as you say I think.
Blob only means binary large object in a database context. In every other context it just means, well, blob, a chunk of stuff.
Wikipedia tells me that even in the database context, it was originally used in this context, named after the Steve McQueen film and later backronymed to mean basic, then binary, large object.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] threadBlob only means binary large object in a database context. In every other context it just means, well, blob, a chunk of stuff.
Wikipedia tells me that even in the database context, it was originally used in this context, named after the Steve McQueen film and later backronymed to mean basic, then binary, large object.