Linux Script "Ram Altman" Emails Sam Altman Your Unused RAM Every Day
RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC
After Sam Altman said OpenAI's RAM needs outweigh consumer electronics, open-source developer Iain Kay built a BASH script that reports idle memory to Altman's inbox. When more than 10% of a machine's RAM sits unused, it fires off a sarcastic template — "Hoarding responsibly, A concerned RAM owner." Email is off by default to avoid mail-spoofing or DoS abuse, and a --dry-run flag previews messages locally. The FAQ is merciless.
Please don't be alarmed, but there is 8.6 GiB of RAM on my desk that isn't in a data centre. That's 56.2% of what's installed here, and as far as I can tell it has no plans today.
- mindwok
IMO his comments are blown way out of proportion. He says "from a global allocation perspective" it's better to have RAM in the cloud where it can be used much more efficiently. I think there's an argument to be made that this is more than just economics to most people, it's about ownership and freedom, but he's clearly just talking economics.
- bstsb
the ridiculous "no ad blocker" full-screen modal that's unclosable led me down a rabbit hole there - turns out there's some obfuscated script from "Ad Shield" which replaces the whole site with an iframe if you dare to block their domain, "html-load.com", which proxies ad networks.
fortunately one can just run debugger; to stop it early
- Tiberium
- e2le
I would hesitate to say the memory used by the filesystem cache is unused.
- badgersnake
I didn’t think we’d get to the point where all compute is headed for the data centre and normal people don’t get to have anything bigger than a phone but here we are.
- ChrisArchitect
- rvz
Just what is the point?
- ErroneousBosh
I have no unused RAM; if any shows up I spin up some nested Alpine VMs. I got 20 layers deep the other day.
Fucking Cry Harder, AI bros.