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Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website (github.com)
16 points by programd 165 days ago
3 comments
bawolff 165 days ago
App showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.
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yjftsjthsd-h 165 days ago
I would prefer it to be opt-in
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e2le 165 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.
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anthk 165 days ago
So will qalc from libqalculate.
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antisol 164 days ago
Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.
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