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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

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