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
If you have been considering trying out Arch linux but haven’t yet, you should give Manjaro’s new release a try. Philip Müller, the head of the development team for the OS, has done a great job fixing issues with KDE and bringing in upgraded packages. According to Phillip, the Calamares installer in 17.03 had a few issues that needed working out, he later found that KDE and Mesa weren’t exactly acting right, so he upgraded those and added the most up to date packages for his stable branch in 17.04. Manjaro and I have had ups and downs in the past, I was recently using Antergos and was skeptical, but when I first booted it up, I noticed a plethora of changes right off the bat. One of the said changes that caught my eye, the theme had had a facelift. Firefox was still a bit buggy, so I installed a stock firefox from the mozilla site and found that it works slightly better(I’m planning on writing about how to do that in the up coming weeks). I noticed also that Qupzil