Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

 (github.com)

16 points | by programd 1 day ago

3 comments

  • antisol 5 hours ago
    Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.
  • bawolff 1 day ago
    App showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.
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    • yjftsjthsd-h 1 day ago
      I would prefer it to be opt-in
    • e2le 1 day 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 1 day ago
    So will qalc from libqalculate.