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KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC

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“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC

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Sam Altman is not having a good couple of weeks; ever since he said OpenAI’s ram needs are more important than consumer electronics, the internet has been unforgiving. But one man has taken …
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    Anyone using that would probably very quickly get their email on a blocklist. Still, I appreciate the sentiment.

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    Here’s the unused ram that I keep laying around in a box. Can someone tweet it at Sam for me?

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      Get a load of Mr. Moneybags over here. They have memory AND a video card just laying around.

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        A SSD as well (top right).

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          128gb, that’ll fit like 3-4 models, sweet!

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      deleted by creator

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      Is that a GeForce GT?

    • the_flying_pig@lemmy.world
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      You mean X it?

      • oozynozh@sh.itjust.works
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        eXcrete it all over him

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    • Cliff@lemmy.world
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      This will be the most satisfying bubble burst i’ve ever witnessed.

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        I don’t think so. The people responsible will have their golden parachutes, while the rest of us will have to deal with the full blown recession.

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          More like depression

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            And also a struggling economy.

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    Man I might be a wierdo here, but I don’t want to give him free data. His company has stolen enough as it is.

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      Who says it has to be real data?

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      • ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
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        I like your thinking.

      • Haley@lemmus.org
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        Throw open a bunch of cloud VMs

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          Tell him how much of his own RAM is currently unused.

          …but then he probably knows how much is sitting in warehousing.

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            Lmaoooo

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      That was my first though too. The whole point is to stop sending them our data. But like someone else said, it doesn’t need to be real. Maybe we start reporting there’s a shit ton ram on Jupitor ripe for assimilation.

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    For the record, I have 38GB of RAM just sitting there doing fuckall at the moment. I don’t have any plans to put it to work this evening. I’m just gonna let it idle while I surf Lemmy, watch body cam videos, and drink beer. What a travesty for Sammy! Someone think of the poor cuck CEO!

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      How the f do you have 38GB???

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        Probably two 19GB sticks. My board has all four slots populated for a total of 74GB.

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    When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. — William Gates, chairman of Microsoft

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      ::Chrome has entered the chat::

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        deleted by creator

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      That might be true if we didn’t start using the internet to send video and audio

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    This is goddamned amazing.

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    Fucking RAM Burglar.

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      Well, sniffer. He sniffs for free RAM now. 🤭

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    Reminder this can put you in prison in Australia

    https://lamontlaw.com.au/legal-articles/using-a-carriage-service-to-harass-menace-or-cause-offence-section-474-17-criminal-code-act-1995-cth/

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      isn’t it punishment enough living in Australia?

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      “Offensive” conduct must be more than merely hurtful, annoying or vexing. It must be “calculated or likely to arouse significant anger, significant resentment, outrage, disgust, or hatred in the mind of a reasonable person in all the circumstances.” Moreover, it must “be likely to have a serious effect upon the emotional well-being of an addressee.”

      I dunno if that’s entirely true but maybe I’m misunderstanding this - it seems kinda open to interpretation.

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        Look at harassment, not offence

        “harassing” conduct, imply a “serious potential effect upon an addressee, one which causes apprehension, if not a fear, for that person’s safety"

        Easy to argue that case with how upset a large portion of society are about what he’s doing

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          Ahh yeah true, good point.

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        Ram altman is a snowflake though

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    I have a computer with 352 GB just sitting there doing nothing. I finally have a use for it!

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    he is evil

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    How the F did this guy convince all the world’s richest people to invest in his chatbot?

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      “Hey guys, if we trade money back and forth for a couple years people will think we’ll be worth more and we can leverage our stock options to make shitloads of money we can use to take even greater control of the economy”

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      by telling them it was gonna replace knowledge workers. people believe what they want to hear.

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      Because the chatbot felt human enough to trick many people into a hype.

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      Rich people, by and large, incredibly stupid and narcissistic. They do not have the intelligence to understand how awful Ai is and they are easily duped by the promise that it will a) do their jobs for them and b) suck them off over how “smart” they are for asking basic questions the whole time.

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    Feed him more data - brilliant.

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      I’m gonna edit the script to say I have 192 GB

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        And this, right here, is the last post by sorghum@sh.itjust.works before the Open AI repo men came for them.

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            “Call me daddy when I take it.”

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            Is that a star commonly used in communism? Your ram is my ram now

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              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it

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        If it accurately reports it, I won’t need to edit the script.

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          That’s my point, I don’t want it to be accurate. I just want it to rage bait 'ol Scammy.

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            Yeah, I got that. But I’m bragging that I actually have 192 GB.

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              128 gang here, problem is the script send what is unused and well I use 90% of it. Its my ram and I want to use it all.

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              Okay, little jelly, but what the hell are you even doing with 64 GB of RAM? Are you running a mini-version of AWS?

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                multiple VMs mostly

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                I need huge amounts of RAM for video editing. When the bubble pops I’m hoping to upgrade to 128GB.

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        That’s only… roughly… not even 1 TB.
        BLOODY ROOKIE!

        /s

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      Old MacDonald had a RAM, E-I-E-I-O!

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        Old Mc-Donald had a Rump. =) And Bubba said Oh!

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    There is no “unused” RAM in a Linux machine. RAM that is not allocated makes a wonderful disk cache, basically since the kernel knew block devices.

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      Especially if you use ZFS.

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        ARC go brrrr (or dedupe, but the new dedupe uses much less memory)

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