Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

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

16 points by programd 178 days ago | 5 comments

bawolff 178 days ago |

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

yjftsjthsd-h 178 days ago | |

I would prefer it to be opt-in

e2le 178 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 178 days ago |

So will qalc from libqalculate.

antisol 176 days ago |

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