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Cake day: March 8th, 2024

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  • I was following along when they initially announced it and while I personally think its an awful idea, it did seem to stem not from a profit motive but an intention to make Wikipedia easier to use and more effective, and when the vast majority of contributors and editors responded to tell Wikipedia that it was an atrocious idea and that they shouldn’t do it they listened and scrapped the plan.

    My point being, isn’t it better as a whole that they’re willing to consider new things but will also listen to the feedback they get from their users and maintainers and choose not to implement ideas that are wildly unpopular?

    Writing off all of Wikipedia (the most effective tool for collaborative knowledge collection in human history) just because they announced a well intentioned tool addition and then scrapped the plan when they realized it was unpopular and would likely degrade their platform seems short sighted at best imo.









  • Thank you so much this is very helpful, I’ll definitely be taking a run at it with all of this advice in mind this week. When you mention running the whole thing as a single stack does that mean getting all of it running inside a single docker container such that it only takes the 1 docker run command? Is it a requirement to get them able to talk or just a more elegant way to have the entirety of the server running in a singular container instead of spread across several?








  • Finally finished the series last week for the first time and my god.

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    I feel like from the moment I knew for certain someone was going to die in The Ellimists Chronicles I knew it would be Rachel, she just seemed least likely to be able to handle a post-war life.

    That said I love how they managed to wrap everything up and still deliver on who dies in this book early enough to really show us the fallout after the war. I think the my favorite sequence in the whole series is definitely the tense negotiations between the animorphs and andalite high command when Marco points out that if they back down on those negotiations then the andalites will own them, because he is completely correct.

    All in all a fantastic conclusion to a great series and I haven’t even touched on the final fates of the yeerk pool, the animorphs reserves, or the yeerks aboard the pool ship. But I can’t appreciate enough how much screentime they gave to the weight and truth of Jake’s actions as a war criminal during the fighting and how that affects him.

    Only fitting that the antagonist right at the end is just a bigger and more advanced version of the same existential threat the yeerks pose: being swallowed up and assimilated by an entity that doesn’t want to kill you, just take away all free will and use you and your knowledge/memories to expand its reach.