Say that losing the state directory forgets the latest logout (part of #256)

The state directory bullet in README.md and the session package doc now
say that the time of the latest logout is kept in the database, which a
restart without a persistent volume loses.

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@@ -86,6 +86,18 @@ P2: security: per-origin rate limiting
and the query now have each `%` written as `%25` and each `:` as `%3A`; a path
and query holding neither are signed and keyed as before. Signature
Specification in `README.md` says so.
- 2026-10-15 logging out ends every login session (closes #256): a login session
was a cookie with nothing kept on the server, so `/logout` removed it from one
browser and a copy of it kept working for its 30 days. Every login is made
with the one signing key, so `/logout` now ends them all: the session manager
keeps the time of the latest logout, saves it in the new `logout` table so
that it outlasts a restart, and refuses a session made before it. A restart
without a persistent volume for the state directory forgets it. A `/logout`
without a valid login session, such as one another site makes a browser send
without the `SameSite=Strict` cookie, ends none and only removes the cookie. A
logout that cannot be saved answers 500. `session.NewManager`, which the tests
use, keeps logouts in memory only; pixad uses
`session.NewManagerWithDatabase`.
- 2026-10-15 the example config allowlists no host (closes #249): it allowlisted
`github.com` and `user-images.githubusercontent.com`, where anyone can put an
image, so a deployment set up as Getting Started says served those images to
@@ -103,17 +115,6 @@ P2: security: per-origin rate limiting
answered 500. Once the limit is used up, the fetcher now reads one more byte:
if the body has ended it is accepted, and if there is more it is refused with
`ErrResponseTooLarge`, as before.
- 2026-10-15 logging out ends every login session (closes #256): a login session
was a cookie with nothing kept on the server, so `/logout` removed it from one
browser and a copy of it kept working for its 30 days. Every login is made
with the one signing key, so `/logout` now ends them all: the session manager
keeps the time of the latest logout, saves it in the new `logout` table so
that it outlasts a restart, and refuses a session made before it. A `/logout`
without a valid login session, such as one another site makes a browser send
without the `SameSite=Strict` cookie, ends none and only removes the cookie. A
logout that cannot be saved answers 500. `session.NewManager`, which the tests
use, keeps logouts in memory only; pixad uses
`session.NewManagerWithDatabase`.
- 2026-10-13 `fit=outside` no longer makes an output above 8192 on a side
(closes #257): it scales the image to cover the requested size, and the side
scaled past that size was held to no maximum, so `1x8192?fit=outside` of a