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Gemini CLI is an open-source (Apache 2.0) AI agent that brings Gemini 2.5 Pro capabilities directly into the terminal.

Free tier offers access to Gemini 2.5 Pro with a 1 million-token context window, 60 requests/minute, and 1,000 requests/day at no charge.

Supports coding tasks (writing, debugging) and non-coding workflows like content generation, research, and task automation via natural language.

Modular design with 12 replaceable parts for easy repairs and upgrades

5-year warranty and 8-year Android software support

Durable build featuring Gorilla Glass 7i, IP55 rainproofing, and military-grade drop testing

The author uses roeften’s pypassport tool on Linux to read all NFC chip data, including biometrics.

Passport NFC chips are protected by an MRZ-derived password (passport number, DOB, expiry date, and checksums) printed in the Machine Readable Zone.

If the MRZ is damaged, you can reconstruct it using the passport number, date of birth, expiry date, and a checksum algorithm; Python sample code is provided.

Lyon will phase out Microsoft Office, replacing it with open-source tools Only Office, Linux, and PostgreSQL

The transition aims to achieve digital sovereignty by reducing reliance on U.S.-based proprietary software

The city will adopt the Territoire Numérique Ouvert suite, developed with SITIV and Lyon Metropolis

Modern time management practices optimize what physics suggests may be an emergent illusion rather than a fundamental reality.

Historically, humans measured time with sundials, calendars, and Newton’s concept of absolute time, treating it as a universal commodity.

Einstein’s relativity showed time is relative to motion and gravity, breaking down the idea of a single, universal timeline.

Between August 2018 and August 2024, Texas solar capacity grew from 1.2 GW to 18.8 GW, reducing net fossil-fuel generation at any given total demand.

Wholesale electricity prices in August 2024 were consistently lower than in August 2018 for the same demand levels, thanks to increased solar output.

In Texas’s wholesale market, the marginal (most expensive) generator sets the price; reducing fossil-fuel ‘net load’ via renewables lowers that marginal price.

11 automakers and suppliers sign Memorandum of Understanding supported by VDA for collaborative open source vehicle software development

Aim to jointly develop non-differentiating software modules through an open, vendor-neutral ecosystem managed by the Eclipse Foundation S-CORE project

Introduced a code-first development process designed for functional safety certification under automotive standards

The National Archives at College Park holds permanent federal records including textual files, WWI Army and WWII Navy unit records, photographs, electronic records, cartographic and architectural holdings, motion pictures, sound recordings, and JFK assassination materials.

It also houses Berlin Documents Center microfilm.

Researchers can access the facility at 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, with truck deliveries via 3301 Metzerott Road.

Subsecond enables hot-patching of Rust applications by detouring function calls through a runtime-managed jump table, allowing code updates without restarting.

It uses an external tool and the ThinLink linker wrapper to compile only changed code and generate jump tables, speeding up development builds.

Developers wrap code in subsecond::call macros and use the Dioxus CLI (dx serve --hotpatch) to automatically load and apply patches.

Time in programming relies on two core concepts: durations (e.g., 9.69 s) and instants (specific moments) measured as elapsed seconds from a reference epoch.

Absolute time (Unix time, Apollo Time, etc.) treats instants as numeric offsets from an epoch, simplifying arithmetic and comparisons.

Civil time (like the Gregorian calendar) maps instants into human-readable datetimes (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) but introduces ambiguity because periods (days, months) vary in actual seconds.