Late Night Linux – Episode 348

The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name.

News

It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!

Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

putty.software

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