Hi Jakub! - VisiData fetching the list of startup messages he first time each day that VisiData is used is documented in the privacy policy: https://www.visidata.org/privacy/. - - As noted in the privacy policy, the network request can be turned off by adding `options.motd_url=None` to your `~/.visidatarc`. There is definitely a bug in v2.2.1 and earlier, where VisiData will access the website each time it is used, in order to grab the list of plugins. This bug was fixed in v2.3: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/stable/CHANGELOG.md#bugfixes-5. I have not updated the VisiData on debian yet post v2.2.1, because I wanted to be certain of a stable candidate on debian. v2.8 coming up will have that fix, and is a candidate for updating the Debian package. I can leave this bug open as unresolved until that is done.
For now, you can set `options.plugins_url=None` to your `~/.visidatarc` to turn that off. `open-plugins` will not work, but if you do not want your software making network requests, you probably would not want that feature. For a detailed explanation on why the author chose to have the network requests on by default, please see this discussion: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/940
