[wakeupcall]

It's not a great request/tone, and neither is the answer...

Update checks and auto-updates for OSS are often an anti-feature though, not for the "surveillance" argument which is silly, but because update checks are often performed by distributions using the package, and it's often double work on the distributor part to change the default, something it's easily missed while packaging.

Expecting that your software does unexpected network requests where it shouldn't is also something I agree with, even if those are benign. Many people seem to think that software is going overboard with this, as stuff like little-snitch wouldn't be popular otherwise and thrust has been _already_ been eroded completely on commercial software.

[aumerle]

Except that kitty's update check defaults to off for distro packaged software and on for non-distro packaged software, without maintainers having to do anything. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.update_check...