/* Technically, most binary formats are legible to a human, given a proper renderer, e.g. journalctl. What TFA speaks about is ASCII/UTF-8 text formats that need no processing besides rendering CR, LF, and TAB characters specially. Assuming a Unix command line, I would call these "cat-readable" formats, or maybe even "less-readable". */
FWIW, journald's file format is one case where upon reading the spec I said it needs to be taken behind the barn and shot as a mercy.
And no, it had nothing to do with being binary, and everything to do with badly mixing "durable system log" and "quick retrieval" aspects in wrong order.
