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Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10 (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Nobody is even slightly concerned that this made it to release? if they can shove in hate speech without anyone noticing, cant be much harder to slowly introduce a backdoor over several commits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most translations are contributed by external users for languages that the project developers don't speak themselves, so they can't always check everything unless there's multiple active translators for one language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukrainian has enough speakers for there to be multiple translators, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Clearly not enough active ones for each and every project out there.

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