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

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Linux was developed via a mailing list for the first decade.

It still is, but it used to be, too

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yup. Cloud accounts, university servers, hard copies, HDDs at home, HDDs in the lab - most of these were viable options that I used to back up my own research data before git even existed.

All of my personal projects go into an offsite git server if they're text-based or a cloud account for binary data, with copies spread across all of my working machines.

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