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    14 days ago

    If you live in a developed country, you’re likely eating 2-4 times as much protein as you actually need.

    Except if you are reducing animal products (not just if you are vegan). In many western cuisines, if you just reduce/avoid meat, egg and diary products, you probably will get too little of some of the amino acids, causing malnutrition. Therefore, this information is important.













  • It seems like part of your thinking is: Why would a criminal invest effort to attack an average John Doe? The answer is: With a popular (widely used) operating system, the effort goes close to zero. Attacks can be automated, so they will be. Also, even if they are not interested in your data, they will be interested in other benefits they gain from controlling your computer:

    • Computing power e.g. for Bitcoin mining
    • Your internet connection to attack other computers via yours, taking your computer to hide their identity and location. This is commonly done as DDOS for blackmailing businesses or silencing websites. Or for sending spam or fake reviews.
    • Your identity. If they can get your name, they can order stuff on your name, which will get you a bad credit score or even criminal charges (identity theft)
    • Access to your local network. Many devices are easier to hack via local network access than from the internet. A criminal who took control of your computer could for example take over your “smart” appliances or WiFi printer.


  • Netguard is a FOSS Android app which kinda works like a firewall. You can allow/block network access on a per-application basis. You can limit access e.g. on WiFi or on mobile etc. It also supports blocklists, supplementing your ad blocker.

    To the Android OS, Netguard acts as if it were a VPN.

    Limitations:

    • if you want to filter Android system services, you will break things. You will need to spend some time to do it right.
    • Chaining it to another VPN is only possible via SOCKS proxy
    • if you want to route some app’s traffic via VPN and others not, I think that is not possible. You could, however, manually turn off an app’s internet connection before disconnecting the VPN, if that is not too error-prone for you.

    The app is very stable, I have been using it for about 5 years without problems. For most use cases it is fire-and-forget, i.e. I rarely open the app any more.