Linus Torvalds in 2021: ECC availability matters a lot - exactly because Intel has been instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with it's horribly bad market segmentation.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/04/linus_torvalds_intel_killed_ecc/
2026: 10% of Firefox crashes are estimated to be caused by bitflips
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304
@leyrer me an Linus (and others) have been banging this drum for years. You'll find posts from both of us on realworldtech.com's forums dating back to the early '10s.
We started detecting this stuff automatically in 2023 which was when I had the first confirmation that my gut feeling about them was correct: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org/110888499492199643
Also check out this much more extensive thread on the topic if you're interested: https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/112407741329145666
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