4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.

Blu-ray rip of Independence Day

I would first find some big names from the demo scene and say "I am not worthy, let these folks do it" and anyone who disagreed would have their frontal lobes severed or something.

This, in its original form, was 4kb.

So, none of us are worthy. Unless one of you is on Lemmy.

Edit: this one is 1kb lmao. None of us are worthy.

A link with a cracked Minecraft client and an ip to join to a small server to chill with that alien.

Technically you can probably send a bunch of links, like Wikipedia etc. He "just" needs to access to it, which may or may not breach the 4GB rule.

Rickroll, comeon

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the actual messages humanity has sent into space in the hopes that aliens will hear it since those are actually pretty cool.

I mean look at this crap. Look at how cool it looks. https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas-Dutil/messages.pdf

(I'm on mobile otherwise I'd add a picture)

I would probably include an apology for using FAT32 and insist that we've made better filesystems since then.

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered (emphasis on 'considered') ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an species of great apes.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

rickroll at 8k for however many seconds that is

Probably an AI model that fits in that size. It might not be our best models, but it probably would be a lot more useful to aliens than whatever we'd decide to fit on 4GB.

They'd get mostly all the inner workings of our languages and how we do conversations and generally be able to answer basic questions about humanity.

The warning "This species destroys anything it encounters, turn around, save yourselves, warn the universe". With as many before and after images of destroyed habitats and extinct creatures that would fit in the rest of the 4GB space.

In_the_end.exe from limewire

I’d send a small note saying “Please take me away from here.”

"Stay away" with various methods given to understand the meaning of the words (images, signs, numbers, sounds, etc)

Garf

2 girls 1 cup

An ASCII image that says "Help."

We must send them the historical documents so they can work to achieve the perfect society.

Frank Sinatra - stormy weather

the English Wikipedia articles on codecs, the 7 layer model, semiconductors, and microprocessors.

gcc compiler.

the source code for Firefox and the lightest possible Linux environment to run it... ... ...

and then as many axxo rips as I can cram in, sorted by IMDb rating

onenightinparis.mov

A really long pocket call

A history of all of our misdeeds and self-inflicted suffering, probably 1gb of compressed literature and 3gb of imagery and video, along with an Earnest plea:

Please if you are able, either teach us how to save us from ourselves, or be merciful and destroy us. Don't let this self-inflicted carnage of we barely sapient creatures commit on one another due to lack of meaningful intellect or empathy continue.

Either take our hand and teach us as the confused, selfish, irrational children that we are, or just end this evolutionary mistake.

Undertale 😎