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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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AS FOR THE SPECTRE/MELTDOWN KERNEL PATCHES

For those who are running older systems, and I’m talking systems with ancient AMD chips and Nvidia graphics. You might have updated kernels in Linux lately and got the following message; Spectre mitigation V2 LFENCE not serializing. What this most likely means is that AMD is pretty hardy and it turns out that most AMD processors were not as vulnerable as the Intel processors were. Thus, your processor is probably not vulnerable to certain variants. I’m speaking of variants 1 & 2. Variant 3, however… Any who, if this message shows itself at boot, it appears that it is so far, just words. I wouldn’t worry too much about it unless you later notice that something about your hardware configuration is acting strange. What it is doing is going back to a generic retpoline. If you didn’t catch anything at boot and are worried about the potential incompatibility, you can usually just revert back in Linux by hitting the shift key before the kernel loads itself. In most distributions you will get a screen full of choices to boot into an older kernel or do maintenance on the system in the case of Ubuntu. If you want to see kernel panics after the boot up process, there are two possible ways. On newer Ubuntu distributions, the ones based on 16.04, you can run journalctl –list-boots and then run journalctl -p err -b <#NumberofLatestBoot> command in a terminal window. If that is too complicated, a more simple command that I use is sudo dmesg -l err or sudo dmesg -l warn. These will show the latest kernel panic complaints from the last boot/latest kernel. There have been Windows machines that have had trouble rebooting after the said patches, however, on Linux, the impact of these patches seem to be nominal, meaning you should probably continue patching. I just thought that people running AMD hardware or hardware as old as mine are more or less safe :).
Link to see if you're still vulnerable:

https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker/blob/master/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh

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