This is also assuming that reading and writing are mutually exclusive.

The places where this level of storage density and longevity are valuable are places that are generating terabytes or tens of terabytes a day. Especially scientific research.

It is definitely an interesting development, and the lack of bit rot makes it incredibly useful as an archival system. However, I am curious if the surrounding hardware necessary to actually successfully read from it is going to be as long-lived. Similar to magnetic hard drives, I am sure the plates that are being written to need to exist in an extremely sterile and particle-free environment in order to be read and written to.

At 10MB/s it’d take you 416 days if constant writes to fill it up.

EXTREMELY slow archival.

At least for now, till it gets better

… What?

Are you drinking your grandma’s bath water again?

It’s a lot more than just video. It’s all your audio while you’re in the car. Your driving habits, your location, your devices, who is in the car with you so on and so forth.

There’s a ton of data that can be gathered and associated without having to have a camera.

If you ever talk in your car and it’s a modern car. Congratulations! That’s being recorded cataloged and sold off to the highest bidder.

Paving the way towards giving overreaching governments and corporations power over what you’re allowed to print

It’s very “reddit like” abuse of power behavior.

And is honestly something instance admins should be able to crack down on.

It’s easy enough to defederate from instances that are toxic, but it’s not so easy to do the same for individual communities that are mass owned by one or two people who abuse their power.

It’s a fucking black hole for information. I hate that they don’t direct people to at least GitHub issues or GitHub discussions.

Even worse are the people that have an open GitHub repo for their project and then tell you to go seek help on discord when you open a GitHub issue.