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The Dabbler

Web home of @smallpatatas. Writing about whatever strikes my fancy. Most often that means some combination of: the Fediverse, beginner coding and server administration, music-making, politics, cooking, art, economics, philosophy, technology.

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The Steelport AI data centre(s): what we know so far

Here's everything I've been able to dig up so far on the Steelport project in Hamilton, Ontario

The Value Of Our Fear

PM Mark Carney is using Canadians' fear of Trump's expansionism to quietly sell us out to his true allies: US finance & tech oligarchs.

Sand Castles

the hollow, market-based politics of AI and Canadian Liberalism

Chicken Caesars: they're messing with your Bluesky feed

Unexplained algorithmic tweaks are putting the Bluesky platform ahead of the protocol

Mark Carney is Your Nightmare Boss

And doesn't even have the courtesy to pretend he isn't

A Home Server Proxy in the Cloud, Using HAProxy and Tailscale

Hiding my home IP address but still hosting my websites and services on my home server

AI is Dehumanization Technology

A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems in Canada's public sector.

The Contradictions of Mark Carney

A review of 'Value(s): Building a Better World for All'

Poison as Praxis

Teaching AI a lesson

Buying Groceries During a Trade War

What should Canada's response to Trump's tariffs be? And, How to Buy Canadian