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Gemini is probably going to go the way of the Hurd sadly, IMO. It is a niche that only privacy enthusiasts and FOSS enthusiasts wish to succeed. The Hurd is doing pretty good for how little people are working on it. If anyone is interested checkout my community, which is centered around the GNU Hurd.
What do you mean? Gemini isn't open source, that's Gemma right?
Oh sorry, checked the article, looks like someone named an internet protocol Gemini too
It's even funnier if you imagine it as the space program. Somehow, it's still muddling along in 2026 on a shoestring budget that slipped below the notice of NASA bean counters, but it hasn't got enough attention to be noticed on the internet.
Yeah it sucks that google coined the name after their ai chatbot. The first thing that comes to everyone when they hear the name gemini is that bot.