Not for me, I'm not getting any response from it.

Been down most of the day for me, as well as a bunch of related domains. Canonical's status page has them linked

Loads for me, but not particularly quickly

dead here

Not loading for me right now.

It's loading, but very slowly.

Canonical is a UK company, so its a symbolic attack against a Western agent. Ubuntu is used by a lot of tech companies so they knew this attack would get a lot of visibility in the tech community. I'm assuming they think this will garner support from the tech community as well.

You should have seen so many lies about Iran by now to justify the neocolonial war against them: so why do you assume every time some newly reported "fact" about them to be true? Rather, you should assume the opposite.

Almost certainly a target of opportunity. The UK has really made a point of staying out of this fight, but is also seen as a close ally of the US. Perhaps the calculus is:

- Iran was able to attack Ubuntu.com

- Iran sees it in its interests to stress the UK / US relationship (albeit in a small way)

It's a well(ish) known org with well known product, and they seem to have been vulnerable. If they had attacked a deli in Newark, would we be having this conversation?

Terrorists will generally target anything of opportunity.

It was also perplexing when Iran was shooting missiles at their allies, until you realize they aren't rational humans.

Canonical partners with organizations like the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Platform One to provide secure software and AI/ML capabilities. They have an entire DOD team.

They work with US military.

Bluesky and mastodon both strike me as easy targets, they expose protocol level integration points that are probably reasonably expensive to serve and reasonably difficult to detect malicious actors on and/or throttle without significantly degrading the service.

I could see low budget attackers deciding that they were the most (not very much) bang for the (also not very much) buck that they could get...

Ubuntu.com doesn't fit that narrative though. I would have thought canonical would have the servers and skill to weather quite a large attack (on the other hand it did go down...)

Maybe they're still mad about systemd.

> I do not understand the connection between Linux and the US/Israel. You'd think Iran would be very pro-Linux since Windows is a very obvious liability for them

Canonical is a British company and the employees are westerners. That makes them targets in the eyes of Iran.

People are forgetting that the Iranian government detests Israel and the entirety of the West. The core principal of the revolution was reversing westoxification (Gharbzadegi) and returning to the norms of the Imam Husayn (Velayat-e Faghih).

Open source and anti-war westerners are viewed opportunistically but with disdain.

It's not Linux, it's Ubuntu. Which is developed by Canonical. Which is a military contractor that has a permanent DoD team and works with the USAF. Which is bombing their country.

Tangent, but I hate snap with the fury of a thousand suns. That single handedly pushed me to pop, then mint.

That says resolved, but I had a hell of a time trying to run apt update still...