Release Notes - Freedom Controller v0.7.9

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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.