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10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (mas.to)
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[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Bit rot is real, I've seen it first hand in plenty of cases. While I tend to blame the storage device, for infrequently accessed files that have been copied multiple times across different drives, I can't rule out RAM or some other source of the corruption.