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GNOME: Security, Extensions, and Liferea News Reader 2.0
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GNOME ☛ Michael Catanzaro: Introduction to Injection Vulnerabilities (and Script Worlds!)
Injection vulnerabilities, like cross-site scripting (XSS) or command injection, occur when we fail to properly encode untrusted output when inserting it into a trusted context. Before injecting uncontrolled or untrusted data, it’s essential to encode, escape, or quote the data to prevent it from breaking out of its intended context.
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ This Extension Displays Your Photo Images as Desktop Widget
Want to display your lovely photo images as desktop widget, here’s an extension that can do the job for Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux with recent GNOME Desktop. It’s Desktop Frames, a GNOME Shell extension that can create multiple desktop widgets that display random images from user selected folders.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Dynamic icons GNOME extension adds 2 new styles, Yaru fixes
You can bring Ubuntu’s clock, calendar and weather app icons to life with the Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons [Reborn] GNOME Shell extension – which has been updated with new icon styles. The extension already has Yaru, Adwaita, Paprius, Big Sur and other icon styles built-in (the dynamic versions don’t depend on the icon sets themselves), so you see real-time clock, date and weather info on icons that look like their static equivalents.
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Liferea News Reader 2.0 Released with GTK4/LibAdwaita Port
Liferea, the reliable and lightweight GNU/Linux Feed Reader, released new major 2.0 version a day ago. The new version of this more than 20 years old application is finally ported to GTK4 + LibAdwaita, with a modern user interface that’s well integrated with recent GNOME desktops.