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Vilian ,

why turkey is flagging linux as malware??? lmao

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Probably the sysadmin in Turkey just didn’t think the distrowatch ranking system was fair, and they were tired of pretending like people actually use MXLinux

iopq ,

LMAO

Vilian ,

LMAO

sentient_loom ,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

Fair.

Good guy Turkey?

Kusimulkku ,

DW ranking 🤝 Eurovision jury votes

Neps ,
@Neps@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

LMAO

deathmetal27 ,

Can someone translate that text?

SteveTech , (edited )

Here’s the Google Lens translation: The IP address of the DistroWatch platform, which provides news, reviews, rankings and general information about Linux distributions, was blocked by the National Cyber Incident Response Center (USOM) on the grounds of “IP hosting/spreading malware”

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Please dont lost pictures of text, asshole

BRINGit34 ,
@BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml avatar

A totally reasonable response to someone kindly posting a translation

SharpieThunderflare ,

Yeah, shame on him for going out of his way to provide helpful information for people, as a direct response to someone who asked for it!

cygnus ,
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Write some alt text for us if you’re so butthurt about it.

stratoscaster ,

Glad to see lemmy users are just as snide as reddit users jeez

choroalp ,

I am turkish and i can say due go how fucking Technologically illiterate our goverment is, Distro watch is probably got banned automatically because Free Software -> Piracy. Most tech related at goverment jobs have people over 50+ That does not know how nodern technology works. I am suprised that they know what free means

Engywuck ,

I’m almost 50 and I surely know about modern tech and FOSS. Age is not the problem here. Ignorance is.

Bogasse ,
@Bogasse@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, people who built those modern technologies are mostly over 50, I suppose.

Bitrot ,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The government also supports Pardus, but different departments I’m sure.

choroalp ,

Differsnt departments with no knowledge transfer

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

It is possible that it is related to how Turkey has been flagging Linux software as malware.

Do you have any more context on this? A quick search showed someone saying the same thing on Reddit, but I haven’t seen any actual sources saying this.

twena ,

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    reev ,

    What’s the logic here? That servers used to host files run Linux? Windows systems distribute malware too.

    Thorned_Rose ,
    @Thorned_Rose@kbin.social avatar

    Microsoft probably has a whole team in Turkey to make sure no one accidentally blocks their crap.

    jak2k ,

    Has been like this for month

    dotslashme ,

    At first I thought it may have been because of this CVE, but if it has been like that for a month, then it’s something else.

    canpolat ,
    @canpolat@programming.dev avatar

    Here is the link to the original website (an NGO that monitors blocked websites in Turkey): ifade.org.tr/…/distrowatch-erisime-engelledi/

    And here is the Google translation of the text on that page:

    The IP address of the DistroWatch platform, which provides news, reviews, rankings and general information about Linux distributions, was blocked by the National Cyber ​​Incident Response Center (USOM) on the grounds of “IP hosting/spreading malware”.

    DestroyMegacorps ,

    Arent most linux distros in DistroWatch open source thus mitigating the malware risk by a ton?

    gravitas_deficiency ,

    Let me guess: “piracy” or “national security”

    istanbullu ,

    They’ll probably roll it back soon. The bureucrats do crazy stuff from time to time… Turkish Gov is very pro-Linux.

    onlinepersona ,

    Spreading malware? It doesn’t host any distros… what are they talking about?

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    lemmyreader ,

    Why DistroWatch ? Are Linux news sites and Linux download sites also blocked ?

    addie ,
    @addie@feddit.uk avatar

    That’s because Arch is the best, so any additional comparisons are just wasting everyone’s time ;-)

    possiblylinux127 ,

    Not really shocking

    electricprism ,

    Lol wuttttt

    Skullgrid ,
    @Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

    yazılım can translate to programming or writings.

    source : am turkish. this is bullshit. wikipedia was also banned for fucking ages

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