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Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10 (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or we all could just still call it twitter and tweets, and be done with it

[–] yiliu@informis.land 16 points 1 year ago

I propose we just stop talking about it altogether.

[–] MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, It's called X now. Elon willed it so, and I'm happy to oblige. Posts are called X-cretions (or X-crement, if they are shitposts).

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Well, he is allegedly fond of the poop emoji.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Like we call meta Facebook and alphabet google. 💁🏻‍♀️

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Facebook is still Facebook and Google is still Google, and they're owned by Meta and Alphabet, unlike X

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

What Google/Facebook did, while a little silly, at least makes some sense because they're segregating the product from the megacorp that owns the product. They maintain the benefits of having consistent branding while also separating out their corporate interests under a new name. In Google's case, Google still exists as a subsidiary of Alphabet, while in Facebook's case Facebook is not a separate company anymore but it still exists as just one of the platforms that Meta operates.

With X, the product itself was renamed, and in so doing the branding was destroyed. There's no good reason to do this as far as I can tell.