DistroWatch has been banned in Turkey

istanbullu, 2 months ago

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

onlinepersona, 2 months ago

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

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lemmyreader, 2 months ago

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

addie, 2 months ago

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

choroalp, 2 months ago

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, 2 months ago

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

Bogasse, 2 months ago

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

Bitrot, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The government also supports Pardus, but different departments I’m sure. I always thought their independent projects looked pretty neat.

choroalp, 2 months ago

Differsnt departments with no knowledge transfer

possiblylinux127, 2 months ago

Not really shocking

electricprism, 2 months ago

Lol wuttttt

canpolat, 2 months ago

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, 2 months ago

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

deathmetal27, 2 months ago

Can someone translate that text?

SteveTech, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

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, 2 months ago

Please dont lost pictures of text, asshole

stratoscaster, 2 months ago

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

cygnus, 2 months ago

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

SharpieThunderflare, 2 months ago

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!

BRINGit34, 2 months ago

A totally reasonable response to someone kindly posting a translation

Skullgrid, 2 months ago

yazılım can translate to programming or writings.

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

Fubarberry, 2 months ago

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, 2 months ago

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reev, 2 months ago

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

Thorned_Rose, 2 months ago

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

Vilian, 2 months ago

why turkey is flagging linux as malware??? lmao

delirious_owl, 2 months ago

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

Neps, 1 month ago

LMAO

iopq, 2 months ago

LMAO

Vilian, 2 months ago

LMAO

sentient_loom, 2 months ago

Fair.

Good guy Turkey?

Kusimulkku, 2 months ago

DW ranking 🤝 Eurovision jury votes

jak2k, 2 months ago

Has been like this for month

dotslashme, 2 months ago

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.