Luigi is terrorist scumbag, and every molecule of oxygen burned in his cells is stolen from better life forms.

Exactly the opposite. Jeff Bezos' little finger has done more for humanity than any person who uses "billionaire" as a snarl word has or ever will.

Assuming this is true, headline is a no-op. However,

Because they spend 1/4 of their waking hours in a web browser and want to use one programmed by people with aligned incentives. What did you think user-agent meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

Did you mean for your post to be a reply to this one that mentioned prize drawings? I'm not seeing anything lottery-like in TFA.

I confess the intensity of my own comment was triggered by the other reply throwing shade at variable rate billing in Texas, which you did not actually endorse.

Because you log basically everything, in a reasonably efficient compressed format, in a circular buffer as large as you can afford, in case its useful to figure out WTF happened when a car comes into the shop with some problem. Or figure out which features almost nobody uses so you might remove them in the next iteration. Or figure out what parts wear out too quickly or too slowly, etc.

Better to log it and not need it, than to need it and not have logged it.

No, that's quite feasible. Assume double precision floating point for latitude and longitude, plus a 64 bit timestamp. 192 bit * 5/s * 10 years comes out to a WHOPPING... 35 GB.

You can log location essentially indefinitely, without using any compression, and without bothering to stop when the car isn't moving, and you never even need to overwrite anything. The most expensive part of the required storage will be getting it certified for automotive ambient temperature.

Huh? They can provide negative prices, or you can make ~gambling on your electricity bill~ illegal. Pick one.

Hanging clothes on a line one by one is very slow. You can move a load of laundry from washer to dryer in like 4 armfuls. Some high-end models even do both in the same machine, but they have lower maximum capacity.

The interaction latency of the web browser is mostly bound by single-thread performance.

If you're right, 1TB drives should last essentially forever. I'm gonna run out and buy 45 of them and make a 44 TB RAID 5 NAS. Same capacity as this silly thing, and way more reliable. Such a good idea that these people even named their company after it!

From retail suppliers, ATX power supplies cost about same as a lead acid car battery, or a little less. And they're a hell of a lot cheaper to ship.

Atomic clocks, star trackers, inertial navigation with ring laser gyroscopes, compasses augmented with a computer and mostly-up-to-date map of local magnetic fields... GPS is used because it's there and its cheap, not because 2026 tech has no other options.

The main problem with journald's binary logging is how space inefficient it is. The json export is smaller than the on-disk format, even though every message contains the same redundant field labels. They paid the costs of binary-format log storage and the only thing they got in exchange is tamper-evidence which is not as good as forwarding to write-only remote storage. Journald is slightly better for a rare use case (enemy action), but much worse for the typical case (garden variety software bugs and hardware failure), which benefits from verbose logging and long retention.

Michael Schwekutsch could never stand to be part of any project with a chance of actually working.