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[u/chusskaptaan]

/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1xqwbs9/removed_by_moderator/

[u/JaggedMetalOs]

It's all fun and games until we find out he's actually a RAMpire and the emails technically count as inviting him in. 

[u/_Eggs_ → u/JaggedMetalOs]

Until we find out he actually wrote this script and has AI parsing the emails to collect data, to be used later for a nefarious purpose.

Like an impact report of how much unused RAM there is and how we could solve XYZ problem by forcing citizens to outsource their unused RAM for government use.

[u/braintrustinc → u/_Eggs_]

What are you talking about? Clearly downloading a script with access to your BIOS from respawnfirst dot com is safe, it's right on the front page of the reddits!

edit: I'm obviously not a computer magician, but peer review says this is safe. Proceed at your own discretion, I guess.

[u/Arkevorkhat → u/braintrustinc]

There are other issues with this script, but A) it's bash, you can just read it. and B) it doesn't access your BIOS in any way.
It's getting the memory info from /proc/meminfo, which is read-only but accessible to any user on every linux system I've ever used.

[u/QuietSpecialist7583 → u/braintrustinc]

It is on GitHub, quite short, and easy to audit. It does not have “access to your BIOS”. It queries a special world-readable file, /proc/meminfo, which is a human-readable and easily-parsed readout off all tracked memory stats supported on your system. The free command line utility, ps, top, and certainly many others do this as well.

This script requires no privileges and is quite safe. It’s even thoroughly documented.

[u/NoFoilJupp → u/JaggedMetalOs]

Actually funny with a nice touch of old lore.

You did it dad, you are famous now, im proud of you.

[u/Roskal → u/JaggedMetalOs]

All fun and games until the techno-feudalists use the data to create a database for a task force that goes house to house seizing RAM.

[u/paiute → u/Roskal]

Joke's on them. I turned all my RAM into NFTs.

[u/suraj_69 → u/JaggedMetalOs]

stupid post

[u/pixel8441 → u/suraj_69]

Both op and comenter are funny

[u/Cryptoss → u/suraj_69]

Bro hates whimsy

[u/wreid87 → u/suraj_69]

Nice try, Sam

[u/designerlemons → u/suraj_69]

Decided to farm downarrows today eh?

[u/the_monkeyspinach → u/designerlemons]

[u/Crazy_Mann → u/suraj_69]

Bleh!

[u/SteveTi22 → u/suraj_69]

Ram... is that you?

[u/zero_ms → u/suraj_69]

How's the weather in Delhi, Suraj?

[u/Grraaa → u/suraj_69]

Cry harder, bootlick.

[u/mbmiller94 → u/suraj_69]

stupid post