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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.

  • Sprite@lemmy.mlEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if people like that are why I was denied volunteer help on indie games with very broken English I wished to fix. :(

    • magikmw@lemm.ee
      20·
      1 year ago

      And why companies usually don't allow for community translations outside of mods, or indies taking "no responsibility" when releasing them when donated.

      It's a legal and PR risk.

    • Aatube@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      There’s another case where the author doesn’t know enough English to know that making every toggle setting in the format of “Is (setting) ?” like “Does Close ADB when Closing Installer?” and “Is show helpers?” is wrong and insinuates that you ruined the meaning

      No bias here