IT之家 News on November 9: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously, when discussing the tight global DRAM supply,claimed that "large amounts of memory in personal computers sit idle for long periods, which is inefficient for global resource allocation"。
These remarks sparked strong controversy because they conflict with consumers' demand for memory capacity. In response, an engineer named IainKay developed a Bash script called "Ram-Altman" that can automatically send Altman an email every day reporting how much memory on the user's own computer is sitting idle.
IT之家 has learned that the script monitors the computer's memory usage through the Linux system, checking the RAM every 5 minutes, and when available memory exceeds 10% of total capacity, it sends Altman an email detailing the currently idle memory capacity, with each user sending at most one email per day.
To keep the emails from being too monotonous, the developer also prepared 8 rotating email subjects, 10 different body texts, and 6 closing signatures. For example, an email with the subject "You missed a spot" reads: "Please don't panic — my desktop currently has 8.6 GB of RAM that isn't in a data center, which is 56.2% of the total memory installed in this computer. As far as I know, none of it seems to have any work scheduled today either."
Currently, IainKay has uploaded this project to GitHub for other users to use free of charge (click here to visit). However, IainKay specifically reminds users not to use it to send emails en masse to harass Altman. He also wrote in the project description: "One person sending one email a day is a joke, but if 10,000 people all do it, it becomes a rather amusingly packaged distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS)."