Linux script emails Sam Altman daily about unused RAM
The gist
Open-source developer Iain Kay released Ram-Altman, a Linux script that emails Sam Altman about idle RAM.
The joke targets Altman's remark that scarce memory sits unused in PCs.
How it unfolded
- Nov 4, 2026Sam Altman posted on X that he wants the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers, saying it is annoying his remarks were taken out of context; he briefly changed his X display name to "Ram Altman."
- Nov 8, 2026A post on X describing Ram-Altman passed 400,000 views within a few hours, and the project spread quickly that day.
- Nov 8, 2026Pirat_Nation posted on X at 10:04 AM describing Ram-Altman, a post that reached 776.2K views; Rahul posted about it at 11:12 AM, quoting Altman's "quite terrible" and "5% of the time" remarks.
Key terms
- BASH script
- A text file of commands run by Bash, the free Unix shell used for automation.
- GitHub
- A repository is a storage space on GitHub where developers keep and manage their project's code and files.
- denial-of-service attack
- A cyberattack that floods a system with requests so legitimate users cannot access it.
Source: Wikipedia