With surveillance capitalism reaching it’s peak in 2026/2027, is getting out the Web the only way for the privacy inclined user?

Will Gemini (or cousins) go the way of Linux? Or is it foverer condemned to go the way of Hurd

    • cornshark@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Oh sorry, checked the article, looks like someone named an internet protocol Gemini too

      • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        looks like someone named…

        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.

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        2 days ago

        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.