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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45310808

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鈥檚 now pleading with Londoners to not only get the laptop back, but take theft more seriously.

  • jdnewmil@lemmy.caEnglish
    31路
    10 months ago

    maybe he should take backups more seriously. The damn disk could have failed and had just as unpleasant an outcome.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    16路
    10 months ago

    There are so many ways to backup data, and a researcher should be using some version control anyway. This is painful, but it鈥檚 a good teachable lesson for the student.

  • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
    13路
    10 months ago

    So PhD candidate doesn鈥檛 understand keeping a copy, or sending to the cloud. That is worrying, more than the theft.

    • unmagical@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4路
      10 months ago

      During undergrad I worked in IT for the university. Outside of their singular focus the professors with PhDs were some of the dumbest mofos I鈥檝e ever met. I鈥檒l never understand the gay republican with a bust of Hillary Clinton and Robert E. Lee in his office.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        2路
        10 months ago

        Hillary Clinton and Robert E. Lee

        They鈥檙e the same picture. And the well-monied only care about the wedge issues so they can keep stealing wealth, otherwise they wouldn鈥檛 embrace Tim Cook and Peter Thiel, that鈥檚 for the masses.