Notices by Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)

Important update : It turns out that #Epicyon does support full text search of your own posts! I was just told that using an ' (apostrophe) right before the search string indicates a full text search.

A hidden gem or a not-so-well-documented feature in Epicyon. For example, if I want to find my posts that mention WordPress, I should enter 'WordPress in the search box. If I wish to find out my posts about "colours and composition", I should enter 'colours and composition.

\o/

Yuhoo! My previous boosted toot is why we need good solid text search for fediverse platforms :)

Erkan Yilmaz appreciation toot :)

#fediverse

Contrary to the forecast, it isn't raining right now. And the birds are out, singing.

"To insist, as these activists do, that humanity must choose between “art and life” is thoroughly foul. Unconsciously or not, the protesters have adopted the position of the ruling class at which they are ostensibly furious.

"The argument of the powers that be is that the population must decide whether it wants money spent on needed social services or culture. There isn’t money or resources enough for both, they claim."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/18/wcwe-o18.html

You cannot save our planet or anything even remotely good by attacking great cultural accomplishments!

And what kind of a newspaper would normalize such vandalism by publishing pathetic statements like "Bystanders in the National Gallery had mixed feelings about the action."? Really!? Mixed feelings?

Guardians of philistinism.

Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers :
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers

Considering the amount of time I spend each year, investigating into it and helping my friends and strangers with getting their first language going in a GNU/Linux system, I am starting to think that I can save time and energy by doing my own distro that has out-of-the-box Sinhala and Tamil input support. Then I can recommend that distro.

It's that time again! One of my friends has decided to use one of the latest GNU/Linux distros, obviously because people tend to like shiny new things. So she goes ahead and installs Ubuntu 22.04. It is the usual story. Like each and every mainstream distro, they have fixed things that are not broken. For the umpteenth time since 2005, we cannot find how to enable Sinhala Unicode input with the most widely-used keyboard layout. It's the same story with Fedora 36, Debian 11 etc.

@stux hurrah! \o/

Happy birthday Mr. Joyce! Happy centenary, Ulysses!

@tindall Keep the worlds apart!

https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo?t=17

It's been a beautiful day. It rained and rained and rained. Everything is dripping water.

It rained and rained and rained.

It will rain and and rain and rain.

/\

This is absolutely gorgeous. I really hope that we will get to see the restored copy in theaters sometime soon.

Bambaru Avith (The Wasps Are Here) (1978) Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhSXIIO1uvk

#SriLanka #film

ලෝක නාට්ය දිනය - 2020 මාර්තු 27.

"අවසන් යුද්ධය නිම වන විට දී
ජය ගත් උන් හා පැරදුණු උන් විය
පැරදුණු උන් අතර විසූ
පොදු ජනයින් සැම සිටියේ සාගින්නේ
ජය ගත් උන් අතර විසූ
පොදු ජනයින් සැම සිටියේ සාගින්නේ"

- 'නොදුටු ඇස්' වේදිකා නාට්යයෙන්

We are in various degrees of lockdown and practising social distancing.

That doesn't mean that the truth should be on lockdown mode.

Governments around the world are exploiting the #COVID19 situation to expand #militarization to all aspects of society. This is very worrying.

Journalism is not a crime!
#FreeAssange #NoExtraditionToUS #WikiLeaks

@simsa03
I found some interesting mentions of Banjar councils. https://books.google.fr/books?id=N3XU7eUMSGIC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=banjar+council&source=bl&ots=zNqGPVJy-J&sig=ACfU3U2Os4W-SroknLI2QsM9aDnecVUusA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFy5y0x8jnAhUFxIUKHR1MDs0Q6AEwBXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=banjar%20council&f=false (looking forward to read more when I have some free time.

Things are much better these days! No major power outages. But I am away in Colombo most of the time, rehearsing a play. If all goes as planned, I will get back to my usual routine / paintings by the end of this month :)

Look! Call for proposals for Libre Graphics Meeting 2020 is now open! (The deadline to submit proposals is February 17th)
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/program.html

#LGM2020 #LGM