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Blocklist-Update.sh

Blocklist-Update.sh is a script that I wrote to manage blocklists from bluetack etc to be used in conjunction with Transmission torrent downloader in Linux/MacOS. The script can be taylored to work with Qbittorrent as well, but the placement of the blocklists means you'd have to redirect the blocklist to go somewhere locally manageable as Transmission uses its own blocklist directory in .config. I believe there are about 10 lists there now. It works well for my needs. It can be ran weekly using crontab in standard user profile.  To download:  blocklist-update.sh To download the others:  Github
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AOL IS RETIRING AIM MESSAGING SERVICE HISTORY IN THE MAKING

 America Online, a once thriving internet company in the mid 90s, with services that included instant messaging, emails, provision of the internet itself. A Time Warner conglomerate that controlled much of the way we see the world wide web. AOL is shutting down its infamous AIM messaging service for good at the end of this year. A week before Christmas, AIM users will login for the last time into their favorite, trusted AIM accounts to either save their chat history, or to copy over pictures on to their computers. AOL itself was at the forefront of almost everything during the dialup days of the net. AOL had names prior to being called AOL as it was already a successful company before the internet. Most of the popularity of AOL services waned a long time ago after DSL became a thing, but there are still aged users of the timeless service. The company had already retired from enhancing and updating the service, however, it was still supported and will continue to be supported until December 15, 2017. The company purchased the Netscape browser which saw its own heyday in the late 90s, it kept receiving support under AOL until around 2007 which is when it broke away and the code became a part of Firefox. Mozilla literally got its start under AOL. A lot can be said for such an aging company, even if many people flock to get away from it now, even if few people still trust doing business over AOL services, I find it quite nostalgic seeing such a long living company closing its doors on one of the first messaging apps that I ever used. My first internet access account was under AOL. With everything there is a time to enjoy and a time to let go, a time to say farewell to the past. My words could never do it justice, but let’s leave AIM on a good note.  

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