Internet request will freeze the game for up to 10 seconds at startup

[LTCatt]

If there's a connection problem, the game will freeze in the red forge loading screen for 10 secs.
Version: 4.0-460, Forge 1.20.1

debug.log:

[2024 01:14:54.364] [Render thread/DEBUG] [mixin/]: Mixing CheckboxAccessor from balm.mixins.json into net.minecraft.client.gui.components.Checkbox
[2024 01:14:54.387] [Render thread/DEBUG] [mixin/]: Generating mapped inner class net/minecraft/world/item/Item$Anonymous$02d7d4a0f771415782543db28d941fe6 (originally org/violetmoon/zetaimplforge/mixin/mixins/client/ItemMixin$2)
[2024 01:14:54.400] [Render thread/DEBUG] [net.minecraftforge.fml.DeferredWorkQueue/LOADING]: Synchronous work queue completed in 595.5 ms
[2024 01:15:00.612] [Quark Contributor Loading Thread/ERROR] [quark/]: Failed to load patreon information
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Connect timed out
	at sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.timedFinishConnect(NioSocketImpl.java:551) ~[?:?]
	at sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.connect(NioSocketImpl.java:602) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:327) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:633) ~[?:?]
	at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java:304) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:178) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:533) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:638) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(HttpsClient.java:266) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:380) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:193) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1242) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:1128) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:179) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1665) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1589) ~[?:?]
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:224) ~[?:?]
	at org.violetmoon.quark.base.handler.ContributorRewardHandler$ThreadContributorListLoader.run(ContributorRewardHandler.java:111) ~[Quark-4.0-460.jar%23442!/:4.0-460]
[2024 01:15:04.915] [Worker-ResourceReload-25/WARN] [net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.SpriteContents/]: Unused frames in sprite tetra:item/pristine_lapis: [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
[2024 01:15:04.943] [Worker-ResourceReload-14/WARN] [net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.SpriteContents/]: Unused frames in sprite enigmaticlegacy:item/fabulous_scroll: [3, 4, 5]
[2024 01:15:04.955] [Worker-ResourceReload-11/WARN] [net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.SpriteContents/]: Unused frames in sprite enigmaticlegacy:block/etherium_block: [5]