Observations of the gravitational lensing caused by far away galaxies in the process of merging have distinctly shown concentrations of something that's lensing the light that's not in either of the two galaxies. There are also other observations that kill any possible 'alternate law of gravity' explanations.

I thought these explanations were interesting myself and I've been paying attention to the topic. And there's been a lot of study of these ideas, because you're right, positing a brand new form of matter is a big step. And study leads to experiments. And the experiments have lead to the general consensus is that dark matter has to be something that has mass and doesn't otherwise interact with light (or normal matter) at all.

I never use passwords with ssh. If ssh asks me for a password, I know something is wrong. I made this policy decision because of the endless attempts to log into my machine from all over the world. It was either something like a yubikey, or only using public key authentication. I went for the public key authentication.

My encrypted HD is more secure than Mega is. This is because I have physical control over the devices my password is typed into and where the decryption happens. It has nothing to do with any other part of the technology, only that. And yes, I periodically examine my computer to make sure nobody has stuck a keylogger in between my keyboard and the computer.

Of course, I still think Tahoe-LAFS is a better idea. :-)

I sort of like bleeding edge. And yum support would be nice. So would systemd support. I will have to take a look at Mageia. Not sure if they do yum. But it looks like they're transitioning to systemd. That's a nice thing.

Or, without actually delving into their Javascript to verify their claims myself it's correct.

I still don't like the idea of them holding the key, even encrypted. It does set it up so if a government wants to figure out what files I have, they have to get Mega to capture my key after my password decrypts it, but that's not so hard.

But that sort of thing is still significantly better than most cloud storage services.

You should read those contracts. You do indeed have some leeway in them. Once they're offering you a contract, they want to hire you. If you want to change a few clauses, they will likely be fine with it, especially ones that aren't actually enforceable.

And lest you just think I'm dreaming, I've done this. I've listed out specific projects of my own that were off limits for them claiming ownership later and things like that.

They apparently needed to re-write it because it had gotten too crufty on the inside. But they took the opportunity to 'fix' the UI, which didn't really need that much fixing. I'm all for those sorts of experiments, but they should be baked before being released.

You can access the gateway with a web browser if you want to. And the issue of whether or not the gateway is under your control is entirely up to you. It would be possible to write a gateway for a smart phone or DD-WRT.

Seriously, I just spent a bunch of time playing with Tahoe-LAFS. And while it's a bit tricky to get running, it's a far better service in terms of security than MEGA is. The only thing it's missing is a front-end that allows it to use random cloud storage providers for its storage. And that's being written as we speak.

Yes, though I think this release is a little worse than most in that regard for the majority of packages. And the installer being so broken is a really new thing for Fedora. I think it greatly contributed to an overall lack of testing and is the reason the rest seems a little more broken than usual.

So, after I got a working install, mysteriously all of my windows end up blank. It seems to be some sort of weird font issue. I got them to show up correctly once, but they don't anymore.

And I have 5 or ten partitions scattered over 4 disks. I have three separate btrfs volumes, and a smattering of other things. It was nearly impossible to get the install to do something reasonable. I ended up telling it to use the one disk I had that I could wipe most stuff out on.

And then, after I got it installed I tried to move it to where I really wanted it. Unfortunately grub2 has a very obtuse configuration, and it was really hard to get everything booting again after I moved the data around to the partitions and subvolumes I created after the install was over.

I too keep a separate /home, and have done ever since I started running a version of Unix at home in 1992 or so. And no, I wasn't willing to let the installer anywhere near that partition. So I had to point it at the right /home after the install was finished.

Oh, and the logout button went away if you don't have other users or windowing systems. Of course, you know, maybe I want to log out in order to re-read a configuration or something. But no, I have to do a bunch of googling to figure out how to even turn the stupid thing back on.

*sigh* I"m really fed up with this. I've spent a total of 5 or 6 full days worth of my time fighting with installer issues on various systems. If I can't install something, it's worthless to me. And I'm certain that a lot of the other little issues I'm seeing have to do with the fact that they likely had 25%-50% the number of people looking at it pre-release because the installer is so bad.

The only thing I've really liked is that the nouveau driver appears to have fixed a couple of irritating display corruption issues.

I've actually contributed a bunch to Fedora in the form of detailed and useful bug reports. I've also contributed code patches to other areas of the distro. I also have some code (some of it fairly non-trivial) in other Open Source projects that Fedora ships. I'm not someone who is just sitting back and complaining. Heck, I contributed a detailed bug report and a patch to btrfs last week.

It is sorely tempting to dive into current GUI technology so I can re-write Anaconda to actually be reasonable. But, of course, it would take months of effort. And I'd end up getting bored and abandoning it because while this stuff is incredibly irritating when it's done badly (and I can list out exactly why it's done badly if someone actually cares enough to listen) I don't actually care enough stay interested unless I'm getting paid.

That's why every single person doesn't write their very own personalized copy of Linux. We all have different strengths. And it's why we sit and argue and complain and try to work the best way. It's so we all can maximally benefit from each other's work.

I am also extremely disappointed in this Fedora release. The installer is confusing and exhibits seemingly random behavior. I was so overjoyed I managed to get it to install it the way I wanted just once on a VM that I went and tried to install in a number of other places. No go.

And after you install, a lot of things are kind of buggy and seemingly incomplete.

Of course, since the installer didn't really work at all until you got to release candidate 4 or so, I can't really expect any other part of the system to have been decently tested.

This is a horrible release and should be skipped. If Fedora continues to go in this direction, I will have to abandon it, despite the fact that the only other decent alternative is Ubuntu, and I despise it. I've been an RH/Fedora user since 1999 or so.