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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

Vivaldi Mail Client

  Vivaldi web browser, a browser founded by Vivaldi Technologies and the co-founder of the old Opera browser, has recently released a snapshot in their 3.5 branch before final which has the technical preview build of a email client and feed reader. The work for these implementations is on going and should be in the next final release slated for sometime later this year or towards January of next year. Vivaldi promised the offering in the beginning with one of their first desktop previews ever. Vivaldi said that in a future release they would implement it, but at the time they didn’t even have the stand alone web mail yet. Vivaldi’s email started as web mail and users could test it without having the browser installed. Web mail is still available, but now you can access the same mailbox in your vivaldi browser. The email client, while robust, still has a few kinks to work out and this process will be on going for some time, however, it is currently usable with the likes of Fast Mail and