constant connection to api.github.com, blocked from api

[Renner0E]

Describe the bug
Noisetorch seemingly sends so many requests to 140.82.121.6 and lb-140-82-114-26-iad.github.com which belong to github.

It's probably because in update.go it contacts https://api.github.com/repos/noisetorch/NoiseTorch/releases/latest
GitHub has a limit of 60 API calls per hour for unauthorized users.

I only noticed this behavior because my system always downloaded/uploaded a few kb (5~6kb)
and sudo tcpdump -i nameofinteface showed some random requests to the ip address mentioned above
and programs like ProtonUp-Qt which rely on GitHubs API break.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. execute an official binary (I could not reproduce this issue when I compiled it from source, I also had this issue with noisetorch from AUR)
2. Keep the application running/use it in background as systemd service like I did
3. Make an API call to github with curl api.github.
4. API call does not work
5. stop noisetorch wait an hour, api.github.com works again

Maybe a button for manually updating is better?

• Distribution [Arch]
• DE [Plasma 5.27]
• NoiseTorch v0.12.2

[AXDOOMER]

Constant connections and many requests? How many per hour or minute? Noisetorch should check only once when starting. Unless Noisetorch is exited and restarted again and again, this should not happen.

[smkuehnhold]

I actually ran into this issue in March, but didn't open an issue (perhaps by mistake?).

At least on my machine, there seems to be an issue with the autorestart behavior as defined in the template systemd unit. When this issue manifests, it results in my IP being rate limited by the GitHub API and noisetorch rendered unusable (as well as a bunch of other tools I rely on).

I'm not sure what causes the initial rate limiting, but having the noisetorch service ping GitHub every 3 seconds while you are rate limited certainly doesn't help...

My solution for the last 5 months or so has been to simply manually remove this autorestart behavior on my own machine.