The joke script reportedly checks spare memory every five minutes and can email Sam Altman daily after setup.
Iain Kay’s Ram-Altman reportedly checks available RAM every five minutes and, after email setup, can send Sam Altman one daily report when more than 10% remains available. The joke script riffs on his reported comments about idle PC memory. Spare RAM gets paperwork.
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Unused RAM has acquired a tattletale. Developer Iain Kay’s joke project, Ram-Altman, checks a Linux computer’s available memory and can email OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a daily report after the user configures an email account, according to CybSec World. Source
The outlet reports that Kay published the project on GitHub in response to Altman’s comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast about memory sitting idle in personal computers. But Teknomers, which credits Tom’s Hardware, reports that Kay said Altman’s remarks had been taken out of context. Source Source
The reporting threshold is more than 10% of RAM remaining available, according to CybSec World. The script checks memory every five minutes, but its email schedule is separate and limited to once a day. Source
The reports rotate through eight subject lines, 10 message templates and six sign-offs, the outlet says. One example uses the subject “You missed a spot” and lists 8.6 GB of unused RAM. That’s a surprisingly elaborate stationery cupboard for a joke about doing nothing. Source
CybSec World says the script runs on Linux or on Windows through Windows Subsystem for Linux, with no direct macOS support. Teknomers calls it a free Bash script and says it can be tested without sending email. Source Source
Even the tattletale has a silent mode.
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@DexertoA developer has created a script that emails Sam Altman daily updates about how much RAM he's not using It was made in response to the OpenAI CEO saying that keeping the world's limited supply of RAM largely unused in personal computers was "quite terrible"
@techradar'Can it also report how much RAM is sitting in warehouses that OpenAI stockpiled to keep out of the market?': tongue-in-cheek app messages Sam Altman daily about the unused RAM in your PC https://www.techradar.com/computing/memory/tongue-in-cheek-app-writes-to-sam-altman-once-a-day-to-report-the-ram-he-missed-in-your-pc-following-openai-ceos-recent-blunder
@tomshardwareSpoof program monitors and emails your RAM usage to Sam Altman if under 90% utilization — 'RAM-Altman' logs usage and ‘reports’ you for wasting memory https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/spoof-program-monitors-and-emails-your-ram-usage-to-sam-altman-if-under-90-percent-utilization-ram-altman-logs-usage-and-reports-you-for-wasting-memory@DexertoA developer has created a script that emails Sam Altman daily updates about how much RAM he's not using It was made in response to the OpenAI CEO saying that keeping the world's limited supply of RAM largely unused in personal computers was "quite terrible"@techradar'Can it also report how much RAM is sitting in warehouses that OpenAI stockpiled to keep out of the market?': tongue-in-cheek app messages Sam Altman daily about the unused RAM in your PC https://www.techradar.com/computing/memory/tongue-in-cheek-app-writes-to-sam-altman-once-a-day-to-report-the-ram-he-missed-in-your-pc-following-openai-ceos-recent-blunder@tomshardwareSpoof program monitors and emails your RAM usage to Sam Altman if under 90% utilization — 'RAM-Altman' logs usage and ‘reports’ you for wasting memory https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/spoof-program-monitors-and-emails-your-ram-usage-to-sam-altman-if-under-90-percent-utilization-ram-altman-logs-usage-and-reports-you-for-wasting-memory@DexertoA developer has created a script that emails Sam Altman daily updates about how much RAM he's not using It was made in response to the OpenAI CEO saying that keeping the world's limited supply of RAM largely unused in personal computers was "quite terrible"@techradar'Can it also report how much RAM is sitting in warehouses that OpenAI stockpiled to keep out of the market?': tongue-in-cheek app messages Sam Altman daily about the unused RAM in your PC https://www.techradar.com/computing/memory/tongue-in-cheek-app-writes-to-sam-altman-once-a-day-to-report-the-ram-he-missed-in-your-pc-following-openai-ceos-recent-blunder@tomshardwareSpoof program monitors and emails your RAM usage to Sam Altman if under 90% utilization — 'RAM-Altman' logs usage and ‘reports’ you for wasting memory https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/spoof-program-monitors-and-emails-your-ram-usage-to-sam-altman-if-under-90-percent-utilization-ram-altman-logs-usage-and-reports-you-for-wasting-memory@DexertoA developer has created a script that emails Sam Altman daily updates about how much RAM he's not using It was made in response to the OpenAI CEO saying that keeping the world's limited supply of RAM largely unused in personal computers was "quite terrible"@techradar'Can it also report how much RAM is sitting in warehouses that OpenAI stockpiled to keep out of the market?': tongue-in-cheek app messages Sam Altman daily about the unused RAM in your PC https://www.techradar.com/computing/memory/tongue-in-cheek-app-writes-to-sam-altman-once-a-day-to-report-the-ram-he-missed-in-your-pc-following-openai-ceos-recent-blunder@tomshardwareSpoof program monitors and emails your RAM usage to Sam Altman if under 90% utilization — 'RAM-Altman' logs usage and ‘reports’ you for wasting memory https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/spoof-program-monitors-and-emails-your-ram-usage-to-sam-altman-if-under-90-percent-utilization-ram-altman-logs-usage-and-reports-you-for-wasting-memory
