RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC

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.

altcognito

What are the chances that they already do this :) Well, probably not given how much memory the harnesses use. (Claude too in fairness)

Tiberium

Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50414839

realist_not

Wouldn't unused RAM infuriate him more ?

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

Jamesbeam

All your RAM are belong to us I am an old-school guy. I don’t send them emails with unused RAM, I just fax them a printout of the script so they have to physically look at it and remove it before it goes in the trash. Bonus points if you send it to legal. Legal always has a fax machine. With what people at OpenAI make per hour, every fax costs them thousands of dollars in labor costs, wasting all their precious resources one toner cartridge at a time in the process. I am just making proper use of all that underutilised toner.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412766

dmitrygr

I am sad that it is not configured to actually email him by default

e2le

I would hesitate to say the memory used by the filesystem cache is unused.

rvz

Just what is the point?

tomcatfish

Is this a script-kiddy DDOS (when many users run it) of someone's email? This doesn't seem very HN. Edit: No, the email is blank, so it's just a regular DOS, unless his email is public somewhere and everyone will fill in the same email. Still not very HN, but just bad, not malicious.

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.

neya

So, the guy who built an AI company that thrives on your personal information to sell you ads and your idea of fighting the said guy is voluntarily emailing him everyday more personal information?

leecommamichael

Isn’t this kind of an illegal crowd-sourced DDoS?

shevy-java

I think Sam owes us money. Also - this will probably age as well as Bill Gates and the 640kb statement, which he never stated in that way, but will forever be linked to him. Sam RAM-boy Altman. Or Sam-RAM-man.

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.

variety8675

Seller of cloud inference warns you should not have your own local inference

nekusar

More like SCAM Altman.

Eliah_Lakhin

> Your country is not allowed to access this resource Well, maybe the country where I currently stay in is not allowed to access this resource. But I don't see any connection of this message to me.