<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: likelystory</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=likelystory</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:34:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=likelystory" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by likelystory in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I could see that:<p>- Firefox may be more prevalent on those using Linux, since FF is less “corporate” than Chrome or Edge.<p>- People using Linux are probably putting Linux on old machines that had versions of Windows that are no longer supported.<p>However, what I can’t say next is “PSUs would get old and stop putting out as much” because that doesn’t tend to happen. They just die.<p>Those running Linux on some old tower may hook up too many devices to an underpowered PSU which could cause problems, but I doubt this is the norm.<p>If it’s not PSUs, what is it? It’s not electromagnetic radiation doing the bitflipping because that’s too rare.<p>Maybe bitflips could be caused by low-quality peripherals.<p>People also don’t vacuum out laptops like they used to vacuum out towers and desktops, so maybe it’s dust.<p>Or maybe it’s all a ruse and FF is buggy, but they don’t have time to figure it out.</p>
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