Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website(github.com)

16 points by programd 235 days ago | 5 comments

bawolff 235 days ago |

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

yjftsjthsd-h 235 days ago | |

I would prefer it to be opt-in

e2le 234 days 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.

anthk 234 days ago |

So will qalc from libqalculate.

antisol 233 days ago |

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