Rediscovering Human Connection While AI may be the buzz today, I believe there is other technology gaining traction with a significant impact, paradoxically in the opposite direction—people taking control back from machines. I began evangelizing Linux and FOSS in the early 2000s. I was an idealist fueled by the vision of a digital world built on collaboration, transparency, and freedom. I never really thought that “this was the year of Linux on the desktop,” but I was happy to spend hours configuring X.org and, in the process, destroying one or two monitors.

Most of the posts in my LinkedIn timeline cause me a lot of cringe, more than what I can bear and what I was expecting. I feel that half of them want to sell me something (including CEOs sharing how amazing their teams are), and the other half are self-promoting. It is effectively a job market, and I am suspicious of every booth. The other day, I tried to be brave and post my unfiltered comments. It was my first post after a couple of years. It was immediately banned by the author. It’s so ridiculous that I cannot access the post (it throws a 500 error) when I’m logged in on LinkedIn, but if you search for it on Google, you can still read it. LinkedIn still tells me it reached X number of users, but if I click on the notification, it redirects me to a blank 500 page.