Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

Posted by Kaibeezy 1 day ago

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price(wheelfront.com)

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red-iron-pine 1 day ago|

Danielle Smith never met a corporate shill she could say no to

I predict 6 months before John Deer gets the Alberta UCP on the line and gets a law passed that bans "unsafe tractors" (or the like)

nothinkjustai 1 day ago||

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

650REDHAIR 1 day ago|||

Danielle Smith knows how to trample curiosity.

B1FF_PSUVM 1 day ago|||

Foreseeing (plausible) political takedowns is useful.

thr0waway001 1 day ago|||

Yep. She gonna sell out Albertan business interests so fast.

slopinthebag 1 day ago|||

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bregma 1 day ago|||

I fail to see the sexism aspect to that comment. Can you elaborate?

red-iron-pine 1 day ago|||

its a ~70 day old account with mostly mixed / downvoted comments defending conservative candidates by attempting to deflect via popular topics (in this case, gender and sexism)

B O T

slopinthebag 1 day ago||

Hmm, looking at your profile it seems all you do is comment on political topics. Look at my profile, it's almost exclusively technology and AI related, since I don't usually use HN as a political battleground.

jagged-chisel 1 day ago||||

Where’s the sexism in the comment?

xethos 1 day ago|||

> sexist

No, I thought Kenny was a schmuck too

standeven 1 day ago||

Then again, she probably loves the idea of tractors with poor fuel efficiency and no exhaust cleaning tech.

jszymborski 1 day ago||

An anti-right to repair bill + a carbon tax (except this time it taxes you for not emitting).

larrytheworm 9 hours ago||

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DarenWatson 1 day ago||

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dorksquad 1 day ago||

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itopaloglu83 1 day ago||

Thank you Cloudflare for making it impossible to read news, and yes I am a human.

dunham 1 day ago||

The other day they blocked me from accessing Kagi's web site because I was using Kagi's web browser.

boplicity 1 day ago|||

Cloudflare is increasingly a problem in terms of blocking huge geographic regions, often without the website operators even being aware this is happening. All in the name of "security."

throwa356262 1 day ago||

Well, at least you are not in Spain.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/website-inaccessible-from...

throwaway85825 1 day ago||

The Spanish government no longer had to care about the consequences of their actions since they found a new voting block.

origin_ 1 day ago||

I'm not familiar with spanish politics, care to explain?

throwaway85825 1 day ago|||

They just gave millions of foreigners the ability to vote for the government.

origin_ 1 day ago|||

a quick search suggests that's just for municipal elections. As I understand the football internet blackouts are national government policy not municipal?

throwaway85825 1 day ago||

Regularization is a national policy. Soon to be followed by a shortened pathway to citizenship.

pocksuppet 1 day ago|||

Do they not want to use the internet when football is on?

juliusceasar 1 day ago|||

This person is annoyed because Spain is speaking out against Israeli warcrimes/genocide.

throwaway85825 1 day ago||

That's quite the leap. Not that it's relevant but I have no issue with european boycott or sanctions of Israel, though warcrimes accusations are pretty toothless. Almost no leaders past or present charged with war crimes were ever arrested.

bashkiddie 1 day ago|||

I second this. Clownflare is agressively blocking: Fennec v149.0.2 - Germany

masfuerte 1 day ago|||

Here's an alternative source:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-tractor-with-12-valve-cumm...

fudged71 1 day ago|||

Mobile Safari has been giving me a complete loop on these in the past couple months, I have to switch browsers to get through. Anyone else?

NitpickLawyer 1 day ago|||

My guess is that this is a direct response to all the claw stuff running on macs. I used to never get cf captchas from a mac + home IP (while getting plenty on my linux ws + work vpn). Now i've gotten 2 sites in the past week that not only show the captcha, but also loop once I click the human thing. Most likely mac + resIP is not a good signal anymore...

ectospheno 1 day ago||||

Worked for me just now on mobile safari. You get the cloudflare human test but I just clicked the box and was in. This was despite accessing the site while vpn’d from home and using multiple adblockers.

itopaloglu83 1 day ago||||

Maybe it’s the blocking of 3rd party cookies, because I experience similar issues with Chrome on desktop from time to time.

hirako2000 1 day ago|||

I occasionally get those loop even on chrome.

pocksuppet 1 day ago|||

"The myth of consensual website use"

User: "I consent"

Website: "I consent"

Cloudflare: "I don't"

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

codazoda 1 day ago|||

Yeah, I also wanted to comment on this, though I think it’s technically against the rules.

I hit this first on my VPN, so I disconnected, then got asked again from my home wifi. I dunno why I look like a bot to Cloudflare. I hate these prompts and it’s too bad they’re all over the web.

dev_hugepages 1 day ago|||

On HN, I often see comments like this, complaining about Cloudflare blocking access to pages. It makes me wonder if it’s due to a particular setup that triggers bot detection – like Tor or no-JS – that HN readers often use, or if Cloudflare has too many false positives.

itopaloglu83 1 day ago|||

I think it's aggressive user profiling, so anyone with a hint of privacy is not welcomed. I can't imagine this getting any better with Chrome MCP and other tools.

ai-x 1 day ago||||

Non-Chrome browsers constantly require Robot check

rconti 1 day ago|||

I don't have that _particular_ problem, but I often gripe about how no website seems to be able to remember that I've used this device before ...

... and only briefly pause to wonder if it's because of all the anti-cookie, anti-tracking stuff in Safari.

huijzer 1 day ago|||

Those tests are funny in a way because we as humans have to prove that we’re human to a robot

HoldOnAMinute 1 day ago|||

Coming soon:

This article requires Age Verification. Please hold up your passport to the sensor on your device to continue.

OsrsNeedsf2P 1 day ago||

Try a browser MCP and ask it to bypass the captcha. Works for me most of the time

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DontBreakAlex 1 day ago|

This sounds good until you remember that we have all these electronics precisely to avoid the 1955 smog situation and climate change. Going back to 1990-era cars isn't solving anything. What we need is a patent and intellectual property reform. My personal opinion is that the same company shouldn't be allowed to sell both the hardware and the software. Open source ECU, anyone?