Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10

Their stupid ass logo looks too much like the old X11 logo. At least Xorg has a cirlcle thing. 😤

He didnt just set the brand recognition on fire, elon basically did everything someone would do if they wanted to intentionally run twitter into the ground.

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

No no, it's not 'a tweet ' anymore, it's 'an X(, formerly known as a tweet)'

I hope this practice never dies.
(Also has "the artist formerly known as Prince vibes".)

The current branding gives more a placeholder asset feeling than a memorable identity. Sorry the twitter logo isn't loading so we'll show you an "X" in the meantime

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Why read X posts when you can watch X videos

I thought it was xeets

"In a xweet (...)"

They could just keep calling tweet, or tweet on X, maybe they just keep this shit to show how stupid the change is...

On some news stories I've been seeing them refer to it as "the social media company X"

I mean… it’s likely just some Russian trolls fucking around

Some people just need a punch in the face to understand why they shouldn't use hate speech.

Redneck, or pirate, or leet speak language options are there to let developers test the translations without them having to be bilingual.

OK what's the deal with those m's and w's?? It looks like a standard seriffed BIOS/ROM font except for those.

Minecraft got in trouble when the Afrikaans translation had the n-word (in English) due to a malicious translator. CDPR had an issue with the Ukrainian translation making references to the ongoing war.

This sort of thing happens somewhat frequently. It's the same reason how fake sign language interpreters can hold positions. It's hard to verify the accuracy of a translation in a language you don't speak. They have to trust that the translator did their job right.

Translations are usually just text strings. No reasonable project would allow translators to write code.

I would assume since it was a block of raw text in Ukrainian in a translation file, it would have passed more under the radar than something like a backdoor. I do not know how things are reviewed before being pushed to release though.

Not really, not only because of the language but also because the same scrutiny between code and content wouldn't have to be the same. I also don't expect core aspects of the distribution, e.g kernel, package manager, cryptography libraries, to be verified the same way than a random software, e.g Kdenlive. So... is it bad, absolutely. Does it mean everything should be questioned again? Probably not.

I'm sure more people know C or Python than Ukrainian at Canonical. It looks like this particular change has been authorized by a third-party localization project, though I'm not sure the whole process works.

Translations are not going to be analyzed as thoroughly as code, and this was still found quite quickly. Submitted code is analyzed much more thoroughly, often by multiple members or the project.

It is very concerning, absolutely. With that said, it's entirely possible localization/translation reviews work differently than code reviews.

Well but they DID notice

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.

But oPeN sOuRce iS sAfe.

If you're genuinely confused, it's because a lot of people live broken lives and it brings them joy to bring others down.

I read the changes, and it seems to me it was a stupid child. Not even someone malicious, but just a stupid love being edgy.

If they could understand the situation, their heads would explode. But they can't, that's why.

Kinda answered your own question there

I contribute to OSM a lot and thankfully I haven’t ran into vandalism yet. I’ve always been kind of surprised it isn’t way more common. I guess maybe it is, just not around me.

Honestly, I'm more surprised that it wasn't caught by some review process. We normies may not consider it. But with 8 billion individuals on this planet, the chances of this happening is near 100%, without sufficient safeguards in place. If this is what happens to something as obvious as translation, imagine how compromised all those cryptic open source code must be!

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.

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

submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive

Not every git user is guaranteed to have an account. In this case, most translators probably don’t as it was automatically translated with weblate, which Ubuntu appears to have since removed.