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[โ€“] AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This sounds cool, but the name is unfortunate due to Google's gemini

[โ€“] DdCno1@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago

Not the project's fault, given that it came out four years earlier.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

then the Gemini project, both the OS one and the NASA one.

[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And the star system and sign. Naming projects after very common words (or even worse, just letters or numbers) is really stupid as it makes searching for them or discussing them difficult and context sensitive and prone to fail.

[โ€“] anothermember@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

To be fair I thought from the start that the world wide web was a pretty stupid name but it did okay.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Rfc 1178 is leaking.