No, but protecting x/xAI from bankruptcy by linking it to the most promising company in Musk's portfolio does. You just need a justification.

This is while they try to find a solution to earn money with it.

I discovered "secret level" on prime recently where there is an episode on UT2004 (with the original sound effects like "killing spree !!!" ). With this additional news, I now want to run it again...

Looking at the fact there are currently no active electricity generating fusion power plants, and we do not know which technology will "win", how likely is this a waste of money ? Or am I missing a point ?

Most experimental approaches to fusion use a deuterium-tritium reaction. It's not the only possibility but it's not a wild bet that tritium will be needed whichever fusion tech wins.

And as tritium has a relatively short half life, it makes sense to research ways to generate, recycle and store it.

There's no reason to wait for a self-sustaining reactor to be online before you start to research other technologies that would be needed for a commercially viable setup. There's no obvious reason why this shouldn't be done in parallel.

The value of the basic research aside, it strikes me that it's as least as valuable as any current fusion research.

The article discusses only the peaceful uses. But tritium must also be constantly replenished in the h-bomb arsenal due to its half life of ~12 years.

You need fuel to conduct experiments

Are the STL files available anywhere for printing ?

Really nice tutorial, and great experiment, however, at home, I would prefer to stay within a much narrower power budget like 5-10 watts max for the router. This one seems in the 40watts-60watts.

I have an ECS mini pc with a Core i3 and dual nic that I use as a router at home. For normal internet usage it stays well within that 5-10 watt range. Only slightly more than a raspberry pi but with much, much more performance.

For 10-20Watts you can use a slightly dated office-desktop (thin-client) that will take a pcie nic and usually has more than enough processing power.

A step further would be a laptop that can come by with 5-10W and still run circles around typical arm-based off the shelf routers. thou the second nic will probably connect via usb3, you get a real keyboard and screen for troubleshooting.

I use a NUC clone with a J4125 Celeron as a Debian file server and it hovers just under 3W. These tend to have only one Ethernet port so you will need to add additional ports on USB for use as a router.

> 50 machines at hetzner

- install machines with ansible (using hetzner scripts for OS install)

- machines communicate over vswitch/vlans, external interfaces disabled whenever possible. Pay attention to the custom mtu trick.

- harden machines, unattended-upgrades mandatory on each machine

- ssh open with IP whitelists from iptables on gateways

- machines organized as k8s clusters, took ~1 year to have everything working cleanly

- everything deployed as k8s resources (kustomize, fluxcd, gitops)

- use keepalived for external IPs with floating IPs for ingress on 3 machines per cluster

Machines are managed as cattle, it takes <1h+ hetzner provisioning time to add as many machines as we need.

> Pay attention to the custom mtu trick.

I wish Hetzner made this more clear up front. Maybe a big red banner on the vSwitch page. I can't count the number of hours I've spent troubleshooting network issues at Hetzner that came down to MTU.

As someone who is trialing Hetzner is there a link to info on this?

The vSwitch docs tell you to limit MTU to 1400 https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/network/vswi.... If you fail to do this it'll default to 1500 I think and manifest in unpredictable ways. Like being able to fetch updates one moment, then being unable to connect to the update server a few minutes later.

We have a lot of small start-ups, the successful ones go to the US to get more financing and less taxes.

That is more or less what we have in France, it comes with other issues... like really high taxes.

But we have many start-ups, which usually migrate to the US as soon as they grow big.

For the keyboard layout, use a mechanical keyboard program it through qmk, loose 1 month adapting to it, and voila, problem solved.

Lol this is sarcasm, right?

No, just a typo.

Works great for me as is. The fact that no android app is necessary is so great. The improvements I would see:

- have a qrcode when running the server instead of displaying the url, much more practical

- have a "relative cursor mode" to behave like a usual trackpad, where you move the cursor from its current position. I am not interested in seeing my display on the phone, just use it as a trackpad while looking at my display.