>Text logs are easy to get at, I don’t need a special program to read
I've seen this type of comment a lot on reddit and I don't understand why people say this. You do not really need a special program to read the systemd logs either, in the event that journalctl doesn't work you can easily use `strings` to read the logs. Feel free to try it right now just for fun, the binary format of journald is actually extremely simple and well-documented and just stores the logs sequentially, it's not "encoding" the strings at all. Why would it need to? It's all fulltext data.
I've seen this type of comment a lot on reddit and I don't understand why people say this. You do not really need a special program to read the systemd logs either, in the event that journalctl doesn't work you can easily use `strings` to read the logs. Feel free to try it right now just for fun, the binary format of journald is actually extremely simple and well-documented and just stores the logs sequentially, it's not "encoding" the strings at all. Why would it need to? It's all fulltext data.