CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, got flamed over his remark that consumers are wasting too much RAM on PCs. Iain Kay, a developer, took the criticisms into his own hands and created a satirical script on Github called RAM-Altman which is aimed at those who wish to take a poke at this notion that high-end RAM on modern PCs are going to waste.
Satirical GitHub script monitors memory and emails OpenAI CEO if usage is low
RAM-Altman is a simple monitoring script that helps to keep an eye on how much memory is used. It works natively on Linux-based systems. It also provides a PowerShell port so Windows users can access it through WSL.
This script is not meant to affect the performance of your PC in any way. Instead, it serves as a data logger for external reports.
The script checks the Linux kernel MemAvailable to find out the current memory state. The script will check the memory usage every 5 minutes to see how high the usage is. But the script will only post the report if the memory usage is under 90%. The 90% metric is the specific metric used in the original flame.
So, if the script passes the memory usage check, then it will send an email to Sam Altman everyday. This essentially is your report for wasting memory. According to Kay, it’s a joke.
He did mention that the memory accounting is accurate, but not the communication part. You can grab the script for free globally from Github.
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