Upgraded my Mastodon instances to v4.3.4 from v4.3.2 finally.

With containers it's relatively painless.

That said, I really would like the Mastodon admin interface have settings for post lengths and number of poll items.

It's a bit of a pain to vet and correct whether ./app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/containers/compose_form_container.js, ./app/validators/status_length_validator.rb, and ./app/validators/poll* need to be changed/updated/migrated for every new minor release. Not a big deal, truly, but it is something to fat finger and something else to track in your environment.

Mastodon is fabulous and complex but a little addition like this would go a long way to ease admin burdens.

cc: @Gargron

What are all the kool kids using for infrastructure automation these days? Ansible, puppet, terraform, something else?

Only really interested in foss/floss solutions. The less 'corporate' the better.

Friends...

#Colocation and/or #VPS #options in eastern #Ontario #Canada run by a #Canadian company?

Preferably centred around or near #Ottawa for coloco. VPS less concerned on location other than #Toronto/ #Ottawa/ #Montreal backbone areas.

Any options? Web searching seems to pull up enterprise grade ($$$) or mickey mouse stuff or US companies with Toronto PoPs.

For frame of reference I currently have stuff on Linode/Akamai and Ionos.

Alternatively, if anyone is operating or interested in starting a coloco cooperative in the #Almonte/ #Renfrew/ #Arnprior/ #CarletonPlace/ #Perth areas please reach out. Maybe there is critical mass to build or I can help something already operating...

R to @ECDC_EU: More on:
travel advice
diagnosis and isolation of cases
infection prevention and control measures
contact tracing
#SOHO
vaccination
risk groups
surveillance
in the Rapid scientific advice on public health measures for #mpox (2024): https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/infectious-disease-topics/mpox/rapid-scientific-advice-public-health-measures-mpox-2024
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/ECDC_EU/status/1879469692286546071#m

I also spent some time messing around with the Chameleon skin on Mediawiki. First time I had a serious look at it.

This skin uses Bootstrap 4 and if I'm following how it works, it basically allows you to skin/theme/layout a Mediawiki site any way you like.

You know how pretty much all Mediawiki sites look the same regardless of what skin is active? This allows you to change that.

It's a bit of a pain to install the Bootstrap extension and the skin itself in the official docker container. I don't know why this is not made a default or accessible via a tag. It should be - from what I've seen this should be considered a leading feature for MW.

Just scratching the surface but looking forward to doing something to modernize the look of my internal wiki. The Medik skin is cool and all but it sill looks like MW ultimately, even with colour and font rotations and such.

Poking around, my MW instance is 12 years old and has ~1100 pages. Nutty.

I spent another evening looking at a web CMS. This time it was Grav.

Very nice. The admin interface is modern and polished. It works nicely.

What I like about this CMS is that it generates static pages and it does not use a database in the back end. I noticed a few plugins require a database and they invoke a standalone sqlite database for that purpose. Noice!

There's a plethora of canned themes and plugins to chose from. For a blog site there is more than enough to work with. Professional sites should find a lot of what they need as well. There is canned auth and commerce plugins available as well as professional services.

cc: @openrisk