Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website (opens in new tab)

(github.com)

16 pointsprogramd5mo ago5 comments

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bawolff5mo ago· 2 in thread

App showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.

yjftsjthsd-h5mo ago

I would prefer it to be opt-in

e2le5mo ago

Not too long ago, Gnome calculator would freeze and crash when it tried to download currency conversion data. It would make such requests on each startup, eventually it was fixed in Ubuntu LTS but was broken for quite some time.

anthk5mo ago

So will qalc from libqalculate.

antisol5mo ago

Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.

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