This is the reason you shouldn't even rely on one of the most powerful and rich companies on earth to provide a useful service over an extended period of time. I'm glad all my Google Accounts are throwaways.
Hangouts is a neat, feasible zero-fuss communications package and I use it regularly. Once it goes, I'll switch to threema ( https://threema.ch/en/ -- recommended ) entirely.
However, I'd like a neat web-centric video/VOIP chat solution, preferably one that doesn't get closed down 3 years in. Any suggestions?
Back in the day it was the IT conference to be. But with an abundance in hardware and google and Apple events streamed around the globe instantly the need for these IT fairs has vanished. I was there back in the 90did and it was the most hyped global event. These days republica, sxsw and other meta events are sort of hype, and only hacker events such as ccc are still where they used to be.
I've been kinda-sorta fatalistic ever since my teen ages but I have to say that in recent years, with a global irreversible ecological disaster closing in fast and all the other shit going down recently around the globe I suspect that we needn't prepare for a post scarcity economy rather than an all-out cyberpunk / post-growth / post-industrial age society.
Either way, wether we're headed towards some post-work utopia or a cyberpunk dystopia, for myself I've decided to carefully balance career moves and a sort of minimalist modern euro-style "prepping". I don't want to be the one standing with his pants down should society as we know it tank and everything we rely on including working computers and the internet become a quasi-luxury and cease to be the norm.
The solution is easy: Have two completely independant consultants. Once for establishing what needs to be done, plan that and write down the plan. Another to execute. Have clearly defined milestones and performance indicators to measure if progress was made. Anyone who want's to really solve a problem does it this way.
Another thing small business owners need to get into their thick scull: Technology is strategy. A decision for a certain type of IT (let's say MS Windows and stuff) is *always* a strategic decision. Don't do it with the right amount of thought, planning and foresight and you'll pay the price later (sic!).
... of MS for once not screwing up open source. They've regained some karma with me. It's a long way to go but a good start. As for JS transpiled client and server-side web development there is no better way to go right now than with TypeScript and VSCode. Tooling and integration is excellent and VSCode is feature rich and really surprisingly performant. Both come recommended from yours truly. And it's about 25 years ago I've said something like this of an MS product.
One of the things really annoying about PHP is that it's so n00b friendly you run across tons of crap code. The upside is that PHP is quite hilarious. There's not a week that goes by that doesn't have me laugh out load about some quirky thing PHP had up its sleeve.
The truth is also that PHP is so domain specific that it really gets SSI programming done better than any other solution out there.
I've got some arty blood in my veins and like typography and layout and all things designy and I think this font isn't half bad. It's way better than using comic sans for everything, that's for sure. Choc is bold, heavy, unusual but still compareatively easy to read. And it's improvised notion makes it usable for just about everything. You really *can* just slap this one on the wall and it will work, because it isn't pretentious and really just does look like brushstrokes.
Bottom line: This is really an improvement over comic sans and normals can't really go wrong with it when typesetting with Choc. I've seen worse insults to the design-gods.
We all know that Orwell would say "OK, I give up. I was totally wrong, this is way more sophisticated a totalitarian system than I could dream up." We all happly carry our dobbleplusgood portable televisor around with us. Add a super-controlling engieered gouvernment to that, and you're way past 1984. Big time.
Maybe next time around I'll really ditch my regular smartphone for something else. I've allready considered stocking up on older Blackberrys. They're pretty cheap now.
... in Germany a few years back. The so called EHEC scandal. (Can't recall if EHEC is the pathogen out the disease it causes). It wasn't pretty. For weeks the republic was frantically tracking down the source and found it in a farm that had basically used raw sewage to fertilize grown sprouts. A few people died a painful death iirc. Don't know if anybody went to jail. This is sort of a borderline case in which dumb Farmers can actually kill people. I don't know if they changed some growing regulations or something after that.
Bottom line: don't think the CDC is exaggerating, this could likely be serious.
At this point, the web browser has become the prime example of the inner-platform effect (an anti-pattern), in being nothing more than a more shitty implementation of the OS below it.
Exactly. But you've totally forgotten the reason the browser is winning. It's precisely *because* you can use it as a platform and needn't think twice about what brand, version and Iteration of operating systems the target audience is running. F*ck MS, Oracle, Apple, some obscure Linux with a bazillion desktop and lib variants, BSDs and whatnot. Take your proprietary heap of lock-in garbage and go die in a fire. And all hail the mighty Webbrowser! Ten times over!
So yes, it's an OS behind the curve, but no, it's absolutely not an Anti-pattern, is the exact opposite. And I thank God for once again the laughed at toys winning and taking over the planet. Just like that silly open architecture toy computer x86 back then.
Toys win and the web will own everything and the world will be a better place because of it.
... solutions and methods of development within hours.
I'm a relatively conservative developer in the web camp and it amazes me day in and day out how the web folks just automate away truckloads of menial tasks with some new tool that came along last week. A first look into npm has everyone joking but a second look reveals how they use their tools at hand to automate just about everything and get to go home early every other day. Example: many web centric repos on GitHub are actually used as distribution servers with a completely automated process for end-user software updates attached. And while many would think "OMG, how could you?"this is actually pretty smart. Another thing is this newfangled NoSQL fad which should better be called "We don't do relations and normalization". However, think about how often one-to-many is resolved outside of its original relational trail (almost never) and suddenly these super flat high speed data dumps aren't that stupid an idea.
Conclusion: That the web camp basically owns and drives development methodologies and PLs these days doesn't surprise me the least and if you're some C++ snob I'd be careful to judge too quickly.
I'm glad activists got through with the GDPR. They did a good job.
Whilst the US has basically just come up with TCPA ( no law but still) , PATRIOT, DMCA and other orwellian f*ck- you laws and regulations, here some activists with close affiliation to FOSS and similar movements basically got their version of the EU GDPR law through. It would be nice to see the GDPR serve as an example to the US and if the US would get its own version of it.
As for MS: they have been regaining karma with me lately but I still think it would send the right signal if they get fined into next Wednesday to show that the EU isn't f*cking around and will have any corporations head on a stick should someone choose to question the applicability of the law.
On the job I've been the GDPR guy after taking seminars and reading through a stack or regulations. And while some parts of it can be tedious to deal with, it does force everyone on ship to keep an eye out on how, when and where personal data is handled. And that was the laws intention and that's a good thing.
The electron is more important than some quark or higgs boson or whatever. The semiconductor is may more important than the question wether my smartphone can run 4 or 8 cores at 1.4 or 3.5 Ghz.
As was crossing the ocean for the first time more important than discovering that new crater under greenlands ice last week or so.
As science progresses, the substancial terra incognita of our worlds grow smaller and dimish. This isn't news and the real progress is in optimisation and applied sciences. Graphene isn't really that much a new thing. We've known carbon for ages. But rather something new made from carbon with some amazing traits that need exporing and testing. That's way more progress then the next big collider or something.
Sound like a smart and potentially effective programm to Kickstart local economy to me. If digital natives are what you're looking for this could work way better than throwing obscene amounts of tax cuts in Amazons direction.
Someone has been thinking outside of the box. That alone makes this program and it's proposal intriguing.
... and C++ is Assembler 3.0. Ignore this and you'll always write software that introduces these bad heavy impact bugs at low level. Get off your high horse however and pull that stick out of your ass and stop banking on "we've been doing C for 30 years now and I'm not having some young whippersnapper tell me what's what" and you'll actually learn some really useful stuff. Like Ocaml, Rust or Eiffel and be amazed at how productive you can be and how sound the quality of your output is based on the PL you're using.
To quote demotivator on this: "Tradition - just because you've always done it this way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid."
While I think humanity would be best served if we take the Adobe exec team, wrapped them into barbed wire and shot them into the sun and let the company itself and all its products and services die in a fire (Hint: I don't like Adobe too much and for good reasons) I'm not sure if they are entirely to blaim in this case.
In short: Anything could've taken out that drive / directory with the critical data.
If you've got critical data and you're not doing regular overturning backups, it's you who needs a solid kick in the balls (if it's not your data) or, in this case, have to go through the pain he's just suffering in order to learn.
Sorry dude. No backups? Your case won't hold water.
Serialisation and deserialisation happens when developers get lazy and/or the original architects of the system designed a shitty appmodel. Or none at all. You see this nice and clearly in PHP CMSes such as Expression Engine or WordPress.
It goes like this: Check out the model, see bunch of crap, think: "Oh I know, I'll just serialize my stuff and dump it into a single field." Newer stuff in WP is full of this and it doesn't help that this is tacked on to a baaad application model with some really shitty DBAL mechanisms that quickly grow to 2-digit amounts of SQL statements being executed per API call and an ERD designed on crack.
The truth of the matter is: If you don't take total control of your data every step of the way you are bound to be screwed when an exploit like this crops up. Simply serializing is the exact opposite of taking control. And taking control is basically impossible if you don't know how to design your app or its DB.
Whenever I see serialized data lying around in persistence, I know that someone further up didn't do his job.
... not your problem. What you describe is classic for "I just noticed that this never gets better" and "the novelty effect has worn off". The last time you had to adjust to changes in groupware/email policy was probably a few years ago and now you're older and probably
fatter and your frustration tolerance is tried enough as it is. Cognitive ability declines noticeable from 45 onwards, I've been noticing this myself. This is why old guys are good managers. They're slower, but they have more experience aka wisdom.
My suggestion: start moving up the food chain and if only as a team lead or part time consultant. You don't want to toil on standard stuff at 45+, if only for the fact that it just doesn't look good.
Another important piece of advice: at 45 the latest you absolutely positively have to start regular exercise and muscle training in order to counter joint wear and increasing age related muscle degeneration. That's 3 times a week at absolute minimum! I'm not joking. Miss out on that and you'll be miserable like most old people. Get going and you'll be able to touch your knees with your forehead at three age of 80. And you'll feel awesome.
... is about making money selling those sweet beats wireless headphones. Who cares what users want when polls indicate they'll give in in large enough numbers to ramp up profits on the headphone front.
I think this correlation is plausible and pretty straight forward. I'm a full-blown sugar-milk-coffee guy and usually too nice for my own good. I expect people who drink their coffee black to be more at home with ignoring unpleasant taste or even enjoying the challenge that comes with bearing less pleasant sensations. That such people are also more sarcastic or like to prod people's emotions more than I would would fit that picture.
"Agile" - Bullshit term (fake nown) stemming from the very real term "agile software development". The correct nown would be "agility" or "agility in software development" or "agile development". This is usually achieved by focusing on strict procedures and a clearly defined and limited set of tools and technologies in order to automate most tasks and be ready to quickly react to clients who don't know what they want to somehow know exactly what it may cost and when it needs to be finished. This is usually the case in the broader industry of web software development. This is why Scrum (offering those exact traits) is often used synonymous with "agility in software development" although it's just one method for agility. Albeit - done correctly - a very usefull and effective one.
"DevOps" - DevOps is the merging of administration and development through automation, standardization and ever increasing performance of computers and networks. Administrative tasks and development tasks move closer together, as both take less work and offer more enablement for IT workers. The line between development, administration and maintenance blurs, hence the portmanteau term "DevOps" - as in "development and operations". These tasks are also moved together because in the SaaS world product lifecycles are increasing shorter or in some cases perpetually changing, requireing IT experts to switch between development, maintenance and administrative tasks on a hourly basis.
"Lean IT" is a broader term describing the trimming down of IT in companies and ventures due to the ever increasing power and versatility of hard- and software. Tasks usually left to special computers and software are now increasingly being handled by off-the-shelf hardware, such as headless desktop computers serving as utility servers, upper-range consumer-grade NAS devices as essential fileservers or cheap generic web-based groupware for mission-critical document management. Stuff like this can nowadays also often be easily moved on to SaaS (aka "Cloud") offerings and back again with enough reliability and fault-tolerance that the risk associated with such an infrastructure shift is justifiable. IT gets leaner and cheaper, with less requirement for highly trained staff. A good example these days is the demise of the on-premise self-hosted MS Exchange groupware/mailserver that is replaced by web-based solutions or subscriptions purchased directly from MS and putting many high-earning MS Exchange experts out of jobs.
One could argue that all three concepts exist only because of ever increasing efficiency in digital technology, but the terms itself do describe different things.
I think we can all agree that with modern Smartphones, their power and connectivity, human psyche is way more at risk than the odd and off chance that someone gets brain cancer from cellphone radiation. I'm noticing cognitive faults in myself that I don't relate to age alone but to excess computer, web and smart device usage. And I'm sure it's way worse for people not just stuck with slashdot but hooked on FB, Twitter and Instagram. Whenever I'm about to upgrade my phone I always consider a downgrade. And this time around I have yet another reason to consider that: the observations mentioned above.
Bottom line: cancer is the least of issues I'm worried about with modern portable smart devices.
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This is the reason you shouldn't even rely on one of the most powerful and rich companies on earth to provide a useful service over an extended period of time. I'm glad all my Google Accounts are throwaways.
Hangouts is a neat, feasible zero-fuss communications package and I use it regularly. Once it goes, I'll switch to threema ( https://threema.ch/en/ -- recommended ) entirely.
However, I'd like a neat web-centric video/VOIP chat solution, preferably one that doesn't get closed down 3 years in. Any suggestions?
Back in the day it was the IT conference to be. But with an abundance in hardware and google and Apple events streamed around the globe instantly the need for these IT fairs has vanished.
I was there back in the 90did and it was the most hyped global event. These days republica, sxsw and other meta events are sort of hype, and only hacker events such as ccc are still where they used to be.
I've been kinda-sorta fatalistic ever since my teen ages but I have to say that in recent years, with a global irreversible ecological disaster closing in fast and all the other shit going down recently around the globe I suspect that we needn't prepare for a post scarcity economy rather than an all-out cyberpunk / post-growth / post-industrial age society.
Either way, wether we're headed towards some post-work utopia or a cyberpunk dystopia, for myself I've decided to carefully balance career moves and a sort of minimalist modern euro-style "prepping". I don't want to be the one standing with his pants down should society as we know it tank and everything we rely on including working computers and the internet become a quasi-luxury and cease to be the norm.
The solution is easy:
Have two completely independant consultants. Once for establishing what needs to be done, plan that and write down the plan.
Another to execute. Have clearly defined milestones and performance indicators to measure if progress was made.
Anyone who want's to really solve a problem does it this way.
Another thing small business owners need to get into their thick scull: Technology is strategy. A decision for a certain type of IT (let's say MS Windows and stuff) is *always* a strategic decision. Don't do it with the right amount of thought, planning and foresight and you'll pay the price later (sic!).
... of MS for once not screwing up open source. They've regained some karma with me. It's a long way to go but a good start. As for JS transpiled client and server-side web development there is no better way to go right now than with TypeScript and VSCode. Tooling and integration is excellent and VSCode is feature rich and really surprisingly performant.
Both come recommended from yours truly. And it's about 25 years ago I've said something like this of an MS product.
Disclaimer: Professional PHP dev here.
One of the things really annoying about PHP is that it's so n00b friendly you run across tons of crap code. The upside is that PHP is quite hilarious. There's not a week that goes by that doesn't have me laugh out load about some quirky thing PHP had up its sleeve.
The truth is also that PHP is so domain specific that it really gets SSI programming done better than any other solution out there.
PHPs badness is its advantage.
I've got some arty blood in my veins and like typography and layout and all things designy and I think this font isn't half bad. It's way better than using comic sans for everything, that's for sure. Choc is bold, heavy, unusual but still compareatively easy to read. And it's improvised notion makes it usable for just about everything. You really *can* just slap this one on the wall and it will work, because it isn't pretentious and really just does look like brushstrokes.
Bottom line: This is really an improvement over comic sans and normals can't really go wrong with it when typesetting with Choc. I've seen worse insults to the design-gods.
We all know that Orwell would say "OK, I give up. I was totally wrong, this is way more sophisticated a totalitarian system than I could dream up." We all happly carry our dobbleplusgood portable televisor around with us. Add a super-controlling engieered gouvernment to that, and you're way past 1984. Big time.
Maybe next time around I'll really ditch my regular smartphone for something else. I've allready considered stocking up on older Blackberrys. They're pretty cheap now.
... in Germany a few years back. The so called EHEC scandal. (Can't recall if EHEC is the pathogen out the disease it causes). It wasn't pretty. For weeks the republic was frantically tracking down the source and found it in a farm that had basically used raw sewage to fertilize grown sprouts. A few people died a painful death iirc. Don't know if anybody went to jail. This is sort of a borderline case in which dumb Farmers can actually kill people. I don't know if they changed some growing regulations or something after that.
Bottom line: don't think the CDC is exaggerating, this could likely be serious.
We haven't even set foot on Mars and already you want to deliberately pollute it?
At this point, the web browser has become the prime example of the inner-platform effect (an anti-pattern), in being nothing more than a more shitty implementation of the OS below it.
Exactly. But you've totally forgotten the reason the browser is winning. It's precisely *because* you can use it as a platform and needn't think twice about what brand, version and Iteration of operating systems the target audience is running. F*ck MS, Oracle, Apple, some obscure Linux with a bazillion desktop and lib variants, BSDs and whatnot. Take your proprietary heap of lock-in garbage and go die in a fire. And all hail the mighty Webbrowser! Ten times over!
So yes, it's an OS behind the curve, but no, it's absolutely not an Anti-pattern, is the exact opposite. And I thank God for once again the laughed at toys winning and taking over the planet. Just like that silly open architecture toy computer x86 back then.
Toys win and the web will own everything and the world will be a better place because of it.
... solutions and methods of development within hours.
I'm a relatively conservative developer in the web camp and it amazes me day in and day out how the web folks just automate away truckloads of menial tasks with some new tool that came along last week. A first look into npm has everyone joking but a second look reveals how they use their tools at hand to automate just about everything and get to go home early every other day. Example: many web centric repos on GitHub are actually used as distribution servers with a completely automated process for end-user software updates attached. And while many would think "OMG, how could you?"this is actually pretty smart. Another thing is this newfangled NoSQL fad which should better be called "We don't do relations and normalization". However, think about how often one-to-many is resolved outside of its original relational trail (almost never) and suddenly these super flat high speed data dumps aren't that stupid an idea.
Conclusion: That the web camp basically owns and drives development methodologies and PLs these days doesn't surprise me the least and if you're some C++ snob I'd be careful to judge too quickly.
My 2 eurocents.
I'm glad activists got through with the GDPR. They did a good job.
Whilst the US has basically just come up with TCPA ( no law but still) , PATRIOT, DMCA and other orwellian f*ck- you laws and regulations, here some activists with close affiliation to FOSS and similar movements basically got their version of the EU GDPR law through. It would be nice to see the GDPR serve as an example to the US and if the US would get its own version of it.
As for MS: they have been regaining karma with me lately but I still think it would send the right signal if they get fined into next Wednesday to show that the EU isn't f*cking around and will have any corporations head on a stick should someone choose to question the applicability of the law.
On the job I've been the GDPR guy after taking seminars and reading through a stack or regulations. And while some parts of it can be tedious to deal with, it does force everyone on ship to keep an eye out on how, when and where personal data is handled. And that was the laws intention and that's a good thing.
My 2 eurocents.
The electron is more important than some quark or higgs boson or whatever. The semiconductor is may more important than the question wether my smartphone can run 4 or 8 cores at 1.4 or 3.5 Ghz.
As was crossing the ocean for the first time more important than discovering that new crater under greenlands ice last week or so.
As science progresses, the substancial terra incognita of our worlds grow smaller and dimish. This isn't news and the real progress is in optimisation and applied sciences. Graphene isn't really that much a new thing. We've known carbon for ages. But rather something new made from carbon with some amazing traits that need exporing and testing. That's way more progress then the next big collider or something.
Sound like a smart and potentially effective programm to Kickstart local economy to me. If digital natives are what you're looking for this could work way better than throwing obscene amounts of tax cuts in Amazons direction.
Someone has been thinking outside of the box. That alone makes this program and it's proposal intriguing.
If I were an USian, I'd check this out.
... and C++ is Assembler 3.0. Ignore this and you'll always write software that introduces these bad heavy impact bugs at low level. Get off your high horse however and pull that stick out of your ass and stop banking on "we've been doing C for 30 years now and I'm not having some young whippersnapper tell me what's what" and you'll actually learn some really useful stuff. Like Ocaml, Rust or Eiffel and be amazed at how productive you can be and how sound the quality of your output is based on the PL you're using.
To quote demotivator on this: "Tradition - just because you've always done it this way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid."
My 2 cents.
While I think humanity would be best served if we take the Adobe exec team, wrapped them into barbed wire and shot them into the sun and let the company itself and all its products and services die in a fire (Hint: I don't like Adobe too much and for good reasons) I'm not sure if they are entirely to blaim in this case.
In short: Anything could've taken out that drive / directory with the critical data.
If you've got critical data and you're not doing regular overturning backups, it's you who needs a solid kick in the balls (if it's not your data) or, in this case, have to go through the pain he's just suffering in order to learn.
Sorry dude. No backups? Your case won't hold water.
Serialisation and deserialisation happens when developers get lazy and/or the original architects of the system designed a shitty appmodel. Or none at all. You see this nice and clearly in PHP CMSes such as Expression Engine or WordPress.
It goes like this:
Check out the model, see bunch of crap, think: "Oh I know, I'll just serialize my stuff and dump it into a single field." Newer stuff in WP is full of this and it doesn't help that this is tacked on to a baaad application model with some really shitty DBAL mechanisms that quickly grow to 2-digit amounts of SQL statements being executed per API call and an ERD designed on crack.
The truth of the matter is: If you don't take total control of your data every step of the way you are bound to be screwed when an exploit like this crops up. Simply serializing is the exact opposite of taking control. And taking control is basically impossible if you don't know how to design your app or its DB.
Whenever I see serialized data lying around in persistence, I know that someone further up didn't do his job.
My 2 eurocents.
... and don't forget to let the old administration know why.
... not your problem. What you describe is classic for "I just noticed that this never gets better" and "the novelty effect has worn off". The last time you had to adjust to changes in groupware/email policy was probably a few years ago and now you're older and probably
fatter and your frustration tolerance is tried enough as it is.
Cognitive ability declines noticeable from 45 onwards, I've been noticing this myself. This is why old guys are good managers. They're slower, but they have more experience aka wisdom.
My suggestion: start moving up the food chain and if only as a team lead or part time consultant. You don't want to toil on standard stuff at 45+, if only for the fact that it just doesn't look good.
Another important piece of advice: at 45 the latest you absolutely positively have to start regular exercise and muscle training in order to counter joint wear and increasing age related muscle degeneration. That's 3 times a week at absolute minimum! I'm not joking. Miss out on that and you'll be miserable like most old people. Get going and you'll be able to touch your knees with your forehead at three age of 80. And you'll feel awesome.
My 20 cents.
... is about making money selling those sweet beats wireless headphones. Who cares what users want when polls indicate they'll give in in large enough numbers to ramp up profits on the headphone front.
I think this correlation is plausible and pretty straight forward. I'm a full-blown sugar-milk-coffee guy and usually too nice for my own good. I expect people who drink their coffee black to be more at home with ignoring unpleasant taste or even enjoying the challenge that comes with bearing less pleasant sensations. That such people are also more sarcastic or like to prod people's emotions more than I would would fit that picture.
Whoops. ... Well, since English isn't my first language, maybe you can let this one slide.
"Agile" - Bullshit term (fake nown) stemming from the very real term "agile software development". The correct nown would be "agility" or "agility in software development" or "agile development". This is usually achieved by focusing on strict procedures and a clearly defined and limited set of tools and technologies in order to automate most tasks and be ready to quickly react to clients who don't know what they want to somehow know exactly what it may cost and when it needs to be finished. This is usually the case in the broader industry of web software development. This is why Scrum (offering those exact traits) is often used synonymous with "agility in software development" although it's just one method for agility. Albeit - done correctly - a very usefull and effective one.
"DevOps" - DevOps is the merging of administration and development through automation, standardization and ever increasing performance of computers and networks. Administrative tasks and development tasks move closer together, as both take less work and offer more enablement for IT workers. The line between development, administration and maintenance blurs, hence the portmanteau term "DevOps" - as in "development and operations". These tasks are also moved together because in the SaaS world product lifecycles are increasing shorter or in some cases perpetually changing, requireing IT experts to switch between development, maintenance and administrative tasks on a hourly basis.
"Lean IT" is a broader term describing the trimming down of IT in companies and ventures due to the ever increasing power and versatility of hard- and software. Tasks usually left to special computers and software are now increasingly being handled by off-the-shelf hardware, such as headless desktop computers serving as utility servers, upper-range consumer-grade NAS devices as essential fileservers or cheap generic web-based groupware for mission-critical document management. Stuff like this can nowadays also often be easily moved on to SaaS (aka "Cloud") offerings and back again with enough reliability and fault-tolerance that the risk associated with such an infrastructure shift is justifiable. IT gets leaner and cheaper, with less requirement for highly trained staff. A good example these days is the demise of the on-premise self-hosted MS Exchange groupware/mailserver that is replaced by web-based solutions or subscriptions purchased directly from MS and putting many high-earning MS Exchange experts out of jobs.
One could argue that all three concepts exist only because of ever increasing efficiency in digital technology, but the terms itself do describe different things.
My 2 eurocents.
I think we can all agree that with modern Smartphones, their power and connectivity, human psyche is way more at risk than the odd and off chance that someone gets brain cancer from cellphone radiation. I'm noticing cognitive faults in myself that I don't relate to age alone but to excess computer, web and smart device usage. And I'm sure it's way worse for people not just stuck with slashdot but hooked on FB, Twitter and Instagram.
Whenever I'm about to upgrade my phone I always consider a downgrade. And this time around I have yet another reason to consider that: the observations mentioned above.
Bottom line: cancer is the least of issues I'm worried about with modern portable smart devices.