- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
If you’re confused why you can’t currently download Ubuntu 23.10 despite the fact it’s been released (and blogs like mine are telling you it’s out) there is a reason.
[From Twitter]: “We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.”
Now, I’m not 100% certain but from poking around the Ubuntu Desktop Installer GitHub — I know, I’m nosey — appears to have been (sadly) the Ukrainian translation file that was hijacked. I ran the text through a translator and …Honestly, I wish I hadn’t.
It’s a broad range of offensive sentences touching on politics, sexuality, and current events. Though shocking, none of it is particularly coherent in scope. It seems to be written to be provocative for provocations sake – the sort of stuff people post on X to farm likes from far-right bots.
This is just messed up and sad. Why do people do this stuff? Why do they have to act like assholes?
If you’re genuinely confused, it’s because a lot of people live broken lives and it brings them joy to bring others down.
I wish I was tbh, it’s sad that stuff like this happens and it’s very unfortunate… it bewilders me so much, to see someone go out their way to do shit like this but I guess when you’re full of hate you’ll do stupid shit like this
I read the changes, and it seems to me it was a stupid child. Not even someone malicious, but just a stupid love being edgy.
I see, honestly I HOPE it was some stupid child because if it was an adult with a functioning brain then idk what to say
If they could understand the situation, their heads would explode. But they can’t, that’s why.
yep, sadly that’s true
Kinda answered your own question there