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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.

  • duncesplayedEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    It wasn’t, by the way. Though it could have been flagged by the dumbest of online translators (or even anyone who could read Cyrillic, since some of it uses English loanwords, like “sex” and “gay”). It should never have made it in release, but I disagree with categorizing it as “hate speech”. I feel comfortable posting it here, even though it’s pretty crude and #3 in particular is very vulgar. If anyone’s curious, here are the Google Translate translations of the vandalized parts (except for one of them, fullInstallationSubtitle, which I think is too offensive to be repeated here. It references the Israel-Palestine war):

    Suck dicks in this {DISTRO}
    Your pants aren’t off yet
    .
    Classic gay sex
    Only the bare essentials, circumcised beards and Jewish pornography.
    Warning: This feature is not supported by your synagogue and cannot support updates to future versions of the Podor system. Please, take off your pants already.
    It’s not that difficult, just take and take off your pants
    Experimental encryption of the ancient Hebrew language
    Complete infection with syphilis
    Turn off RST, spread your buttocks, and continue
    Everything is a hook
    You left with your pin point
    Too much grease on the primary socket
    Leave unwashed
    The mount point should start with removing the pants "/"

    • Skelectus@suppo.fi
      5·
      1 year ago

      That’s a lot of pant removal.

      But anyway, it should be quite possible to automatically screen the translation for something this blatant.

    • Azzu@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      I mean yeah, I was speculating. But what you posted also seems easily detectable :D