Release Notes - Freedom Controller v0.7.9
by Dave Jones

Dave Jones
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  • The code is on github here, and a manual download is here.
  • Upgrade command: sudo /opt/cartulary/bin/upgrade.sh

  • This is my second night here...
  • The primary focus of this release is alternative s3 support for multimedia assets and mastodon timeline feed
  • New feature: Support for Alternative S3 storage for multimedia files
    • - Think "Wasabi" with this. You can specify a wasabi key/secret/bucket/endpoint/region in the preferences page
    • - If you have all of this filled in, audio and video files you upload will go to this bucket instead of Amazon
    • - Wasabi has free (as in $$) egress, so putting the big files there will reduce your AWS bill
    • - Remember to back it up though. :-)
    • - In the next release we'll also support alternative S3 providers for primary storage
    • - This is code that hasn't been touched in years, so we must tread carefully
  • New feature: Mastodon timeline support with filtering
    • - Again, on the prefs page in the Mastodon section
    • - You can subscribe to your timeline as an RSS feed
    • - Apply a text filter to it, like "#coronavirus" and only items with that text string will show up in the feed
    • - You can use this for taming the firehose of your mastodon timeline into something that only applies to your FC interests
  • Improvements: Cart'ing fixes
    • - Better cartulizing of twitter threads. Still scraping since their API doesn't allow getting a whole thread.
    • - Better handling of B'Berg articles.
    • - Better handline of Apple News articles.
    • - Bugfixes and tweaks
  • If there are any bugs please post them here in the comments, or in the Freedom Controller google group.