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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's a

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.

  • tricoro@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    a trillion

    Wait, he was a trillionaire before? Interesting, now I’m curious what effects did this made to the economy, it would be a fun read (maybe).

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      At those scales it’s apparent that money is mostly imaginary.
      $10 is $10 but a publicly traded tech company loses most of its value the moment you try to sell it, but that doesn’t matter when the owner can “lose” 44 billion or 200 billion or a trillion or whatever and experience absolutely no change in his lifestyle.