[1letterunixname]

"Supposedly" is false. The sun doesn't produce cosmic ray-power particles and soft errors aren't affected by sunspot activity. It is affected by altitude and space weather, but not solar activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error

I was in the audience of the talk. All devices should be required to use ECC because it's a security risk. Not as much as http:// era, but silent corruption across networks and systems is a thing.

[colechristensen]

> space weather, but not solar activity

Space weather is solar activity.

[1letterunixname]

Not entirely. Extrasolar activity is the most likely cause for energetic cosmic rays at the Earth's surface.

[dtgriscom]

Well, mostly...

[davidcuddeback]

The link you provided contradicts your comment.

From the link in your comment: "The average rate of cosmic-ray soft errors is inversely proportional to sunspot activity. That is, the average number of cosmic-ray soft errors decreases during the active portion of the sunspot cycle and increases during the quiet portion."