You don't necessarily need the same hardware to read it, just like you can read a vinyl record optically without a needle

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dyauspitr 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Depends 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.

	▲	simicd 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At 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.