Post #65277

2025-12-15 09:04 UTC

Good luck finding a reading device for it in 100y, let alone 14 billion years. I doubt there will be a human civilization a few thousand years from now. :) It’s OK to make fun of non-existing/ not yet market ready devices, no?

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@ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 09:17

Images would likely be the easiest possible thing to translate compared to more arbitrary codes since in that situation the output should be more easily decodable? Also, there’s plenty of easy solutions to that.

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@SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2025-12-15 10:08

We still have Ford-Ts that are alive and kicking so pretty sure in a 100 years some museum will still have a working reading device for this. If this ever comes to market. Also the claim is just to ensure businesses that their backups on this medium will still be 100% readable in a couple of decades, even when the medium hasn’t been stored properly. Unlike tape that has a good chance to rot after 5 years. If it lasts a billion years it surely will survive some damp forgotten basement room for a few decades.

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@Cryxtalix@programming.dev 2025-12-15 11:09

As long as we provide the “rosetta stone”, it can be recovered? As long as as humans haven’t succumed to brainrot and still have capacity for math and logic, we can figure it out. It’s encoded, not encrypted.

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@matlag@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-15 18:52

I was actually thinking whichever company bringing this for the masses will abandon its support 5y later and 25y from now we won’t be able to read it at all, let alone decode the bits.

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