I recently returned this server after about three months of downtime owing to ongoing hardware stability issues. Two cpus, three power supplies and 7 motherboards later, I finally arrived at a combination of hardware that seems to be stable.

After three months, naturally some of the software was stable. I did not have an issue bringing Friendica or Hubzilla up to date, but Mastodon, it's being a bitch.

There were two updates, a minor security update bringing it up to 4.2.29, that installed without issue, and then another update bringing it up to 4.3.7, and that involved adding some encryption keys, but the main problem is it requires a module not present, cors. And when I try to add it with yarn, yarn thinks the internet connection is broken when it is functional. I even tried turning off the firewall in case it was blocking something yarn needed, no help.

I am not a ruby guru, wait, that was way understated, I am a complete ruby neophyte and likely to remain that way as I absolutely detest it for shit like this.

$ ping registry.yarnpkg.com
PING yarn.npmjs.org (104.16.27.34) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 104.16.27.34: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=1.64 ms
64 bytes from 104.16.27.34: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=1.66 ms
64 bytes from 104.16.27.34: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=1.63 ms

As you can see, I can ping registry.yarnpkg.com just fine. Any suggestions on how to get yarn to work so I can install cors so I can get Mastabatordon working?