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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

OPERA 51 RELEASED AND VLC RELEASE

Opera 51, the new stable release from Opera, is a descent improvement over the 50 release. In this release, the team fixed the usual bugs of course, but also added features. One such feature was the new scroll to top of page when clicking tab feature. This easily helps access the top portion of the page without wasting time scrolling on the scroll wheel of the mouse or clicking the arrow or trackpad on a laptop. The team have also added a Reset Opera button which now takes all the work of backing up preferences out of the equation. With this button, you can keep your history and bookmarks while refreshing the home profile of the browser, this feature is already seen in Firefox and Chrome, however, it was never before introduced in Opera or Vivaldi. There was also a redesign of the private browsing mode. Now Mac and Windows versions look similar and you also have new animations on all versions. To skip the animation, you can click the “Don’t show this anymore” button on the page