University of Western Ontario @lemmy.ca lemmybea @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

His laptop with 4 years of cancer research was stolen. Now he wants the city to take theft more seriously | CBC

Western PhD student Aswin Sureshkumar lost more than four years of pancreatic cancer research when his laptop and two hard drivers[sic] were stolen out of a car on April 21. He's now pleading with Londoners to not only get the laptop back, but take theft more seriously.

London, Ontario @lemmy.ca lemmybea @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

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And, maybe take external backups more seriously, too?
Yeah fuck opsec I guess? Interesting way to show your potential future employers that you can't be trusted with any data.
fam, git exists since, what, 1996?
- Linux was developed via a mailing list for the first decade.
  
  It still is, but it used to be, too
  
  Wow, it's newer than I expected.
  
  Still, not backing up that research when the material possibility, at least with git, has existed for five times your research's lifecycle is... astounding. And I'm not even considering FTP backups!
Here in ze Germany we have the saying: Kein Backup, kein Mitleid
Expecting police to find a stolen bag without any traces of anything is stupid. And they don't know if they locked the car?!

Backup doesn't mean leaving it one place... this guy would sue the earth for a flood destroying his shit

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