The image of the Latino immigrant as a criminal is a form of cognitive distortion deliberately used by those in power to manipulate public perception. We must subvert these icons with our own. I am training an AI image model with images of Latino strength and defiance, with our fists in the air.

Training my AI image model further this week.

I am building an image generation web app with @vercel.com and @replicate.com where you will be able to generate your own images of empowerment. We will use AI systems to fight propaganda. We will transform the image of the immigrant as a criminal into images of empowerment and dignity! ✊✊✊

The image of the Latino immigrant as a criminal is a form of cognitive distortion deliberately used by those in power to manipulate public perception. We must subvert these icons with our own. I am training an AI image model with images of Latino strength and defiance, with our fists in the air.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Power fears unity.

It is time for people to unite against the dangerous ideology that the United States is now spreading to other countries. It is gaining momentum and support with other far right, extremist groups as evidenced by Elon Musk supporting the AFD.

The year is 2025. Tech CEOs urge others to move beyond "past guilt", deny giving Nazi salutes and in the same week, begin to cozy up to the AFD, an anti immigrant party that the German judiciary has classified as a suspected extremist party. This is so wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Given the state of the country I am shifting my energy and the focus of my work to building systems that empower and help citizens remain informed, aware and united. I don't know what that looks like yet, I just know it's needed and my line has been drawn. Enough is enough.

Thanks @rudyfraser.com, as the outlook of the country changes and propaganda systems surface, we need to fight this with decentralized anti-propaganda systems of our own. I dream of the Latino and Black community uniting in coordinated resistance, we face similar challenges 💪

Playing around with Open WebUI, a self hosted AI platform. Pretty much like ChatGPT with RBAC admin settings and many features. Finished testing the LDAP config, works like a charm. Time to put a load balancer in from of this bad boy and test Azure auth! docs.openwebui.com

My biggest lesson of 2024: At the center of engineering, we find many tools that interact and integrate with each other. But the most import glue that holds everything together is not technology. It's people.

Datadog pro tip: To monitor the memory usage of a specific process on Windows/Linux vs. the memory consumption of the entire system: - Configure live process gathering - Create a process metric based on RSS Memory % - Name the custom process metric - Create a monitor based on the process metric 👇

When I was at AWS re:Invent they had booths where you could customize your AWS hoodie and I really wanted to put a Linux penguin on it and have them write: they see me chown-ing they hatin' 😂

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Going to turn this on soon! Anyone have any problems when enabling it on an existing cluster?

Wife overhears my meetings so much I asked her what tools I work with. She has close to zero knowledge of engineering. She said: "Kubernetes, Datadog, Ansible, AWS, Linux" Damn, 5/5! 🤣😂

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Man, so many posts about cloud costs today. It's definitely becoming a problem. Time to automate the termination of unused resources this year!

I took it recently. The course on Udemy by Stephane Maarek was very crucial as well as the practice exams. Supervised learning vs unsupervised learning is a big one. Check out this doc: aws.amazon.com/compare/the-...

Had $53 dollars in December in AWS. I forgot I deployed a NAT gateway. Have cloud platforms found a way to capitalize on human error and forgetfulness? Yes.

Me when I check the cost report in Cost Explorer.

Well, I forgot I deployed a NAT gateway last month and it cost me $33 dollars. Good thing I configured a budget report or I would have missed it 😅

Hey all! Took a break from posting on here but wanted to wish everyone a happy new year, and I look forward to chatting with other engineers and tech folk on here!

What's everyone doing for Christmas? Basically, I'm turning my brain off and relaxing at home with my partner and Echo.

I procrastinated on studying for the renewal of my AWS devops cert and now I have until the 31st to pass it.

Received some cool answers to this. The consensus is for some microservices brought value and for others it added complexity. Seems like less people have looked into service mesh.

With all this talk about AI, nuclear power plants and quantum computing, I feel like I might be in The Matrix and I will wake up in a pod of goo next to Neo.

I think there is probably a valid argument that Microsoft has had the most products that are rage inducing. Windows ME anyone?

How are microservices and service mesh treating you? Was it all a trend, did it provide value to your org, or was it in general difficult to implement? I've looked into both but never implemented it.

What are you working on this week? I am in EC2, Datadog and Terraform.

I work with AWS EKS mostly, but I am studying for the GCP Cloud Engineer so I've recently gained exposure to GKE!

lmao! He's on fire!!

What an achievement! Congratulations!

It's been nice to chat with everyone here about engineering and what everyone is working on. Such a different vibe on here!

Nice, been meaning to try Pi-Hole. Time to dust off the Raspberry Pi 🙂

What has been your greatest challenge as an engineer?

Both I like Rocky 9 but don't talk to me about Windows 😅😂

I build a feed, Infrasky, to keep track of all thinge infra related. Check it out!

What has been your biggest mistake in production?

It's starting to feel very uhhhh Soylent Green lately

Appreciate all the answers to this! I have a lot of distros to take a look at! I have been diving into Linux a bit more the past 3 years. I primarly work with Ubuntu, Rocky 9 and RHEL 9. Looking forward to checking out more!

Do you have a favorite Linux distribution?

Definitely @elevenlabsio.bsky.social, I think they are the clear frontrunner.

I've had it with Windows, going to switch to Hannah Montana Linux

Alright y'all tonight may finally be the night I play around with some text to video AI models, some open source models I found on @hf.co!

Oh yeah! They mentioned this in a EKS talk at re:Invent. Good reminder, seems useful!

Just want to thank all the folks nobody notices behind the scenes at #awsreinvent. It’s precisely because you’re so good at your jobs that nobody notices you. Thanks. It was a great conference. You made it possible, and I see and appreciate your work. 🥰

I for one, was tasked this year to upgrade all our CentOS 7 systems to Rocky 9 or RHEL 9, without any existing Ansible scripts. It was...hell.

Sounds more scary than the Silent Hill 2 remake!