You could "bootstrap" all the information required to produce the hardware to read this, by starting with human-readable instructions for the next step.
replyWhat language will humans be reading in 10,000 years?
replyYou don't necessarily need the same hardware to read it, just like you can read a vinyl record optically without a needle
replyDepends on what you etch on there. If it’s binary representation of actual alphabets then sure. If it’s a video file then without the software to decipher and manipulate the data, it would be pretty indecipherable. How to read an mp4 is not part of the data itself.
replyAt 4.8TB one could add a header section with the full code, instructions how to compile it etc. That would certainly help to reproduce it, assuming civilizations in 10k years still can decypher todays language.
replyIf Nanni could have engraved his shitpost about Ea-nasir's copper into multiple glass tablets, easy to distribute, that would last for 10000 years, he probably would have.
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