Carlos Enrique

Working and brainstorming on building counter propaganda systems. Reach out and we can chat!

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.

Hi there! Salvadoran, Engineer, attempting to build anti imperialist counter propaganda systems. Focusing on shifting the far right narrative that immigrants are criminals.

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.

Elon Musk urges far-right German party to move beyond ‘past guilt’ The billionaire was received by cheers while addressing a rally for Alternative for Germany where he told attendees they shouldn’t be ashamed of their history.

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...

Thank you! I appreciate it.

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.

Generate process metrics to analyze historical trends in resource consumption Learn how you can create metrics from your hosts’ processes to track long-term resource consumption trends across your infrastructure.

Great rundown of this feature here: www.datadoghq.com/blog/process...

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

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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'

😂

❤️

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! 🤣😂

A sad truth!

lol

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 😅

Haha, that $20 a month adds up.