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caciarabot: weekends take a non-technical turn in the digest
Weekend days — in the bot’s own timezone, default Europe/Rome — now pull the
daily digest’s candidate from Wikipedia under a non-technical topic filter
instead of the configured tech sources, and the daily-thought Wikipedia rabbit
hole uses the same filter on those days; weekdays are unchanged, and weekday
Wikipedia draws stay unfiltered (00e467f,
PR #1). is_weekend_in_bot_timezone()
in llm/scheduler.py is the shared check, looks_technical() in
llm/wikipedia.py the heuristic, and weekend Wikipedia picks skip the
English-only page fetch so Italian reads come through. The same day’s second
change fixes how updates land: deploy/update.sh now rebuilds, then does
podman compose down and up -d, because up -d followed by restart could
leave the old container running the previous image; the script deliberately
keeps -v off down, so the bind-mounted config, media and data/ trees
survive (bbaa82c,
PR #2). The test suite stands at
174 passing.