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Would you? (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At least this looks like it actually tried to do something.

There was similar software for Windows, called SoftRAM. Turns out it didn't actually do anything. Their driver was just sample code from Microsoft, and the app reported fake RAM savings.