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| From | wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.arch.embedded, sci.electronics.design |
| Subject | Re: good post on LinkedIn |
| Date | 2026-01-30 11:27 -0800 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10lj0mj$2b3ij$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <5e0a38da-0e01-3cfa-3eec-cf3b29a5bb41@insomnia247.nl> <a466fba3-4f96-5968-faef-db94f1e721a5@insomnia247.nl> <10j77ll$12g8$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10lfqlq$3ji9g$1@paganini.bofh.team> <nh4nnkll3df5imkg5d950227f2rhh9v26g@4ax.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 1/29/26 09:04, john larkin wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:26:04 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de > Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote: > >> I myself wrote on >> Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:40:07 >> - >> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> |"I myself wrote: | >> ||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|| >> ||"Happy New Year! || >> || || >> ||This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness. I || >> ||(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto a || >> ||time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This unsatisfactorily || >> ||incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely December || >> ||6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025. || >> || || >> ||This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa 387 || >> ||kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025 to || >> ||download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dvd.authoring || >> || || >> ||Many LinkedIn problems of || >> ||"! || >> || || >> ||This page is having a problem || >> || || >> ||Try coming back to it later. || >> || || >> || || >> ||You could also: || >> || || >> ||* Open a new tab || >> || || >> ||* Refresh this page" || >> ||happened during this December misadventure. || >> || || >> ||LinkedIn is so lame! || >> || || >> ||On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments by || >> ||me from more than 4 weeks previously." || >> ||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|| >> | | >> |LinkedIn made me lose circa 566 megabytes and many tens of minutes to | >> |download circa the last 4 weeks of LinkedIn comments by myself | >> |(excluding comments in this timeframe which LinkedIn stopped showing | >> |to me), and almost 2 hours to upload these downloaded backups. These | >> |four weeks of comments are not many comments but LinkedIn forces an | >> |author to lose excessive amounts of megabytes and time to save such | >> |personal data, or to lose such personal data. LinkedIn is | >> |unsatisfactory. | >> | | >> |[. . .] | >> | | >> |I also noticed on 01/01/2026 that LinkedIn restricted Microsoft Edge's | >> |feature of Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF to print to a single | >> |piece of paper (i.e. a tiny excerpt of weeks of comments) but LinkedIn | >> |used to let Microsoft Edge make big PDF files even as recently as | >> |Tuesday 30th December 2025. E.g. | >> |[. . .]" | >> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| >> >> Since 23/01/2026 I notice 2 new LinkedIn bugs which are not the same >> as the LinkedIn bugs which I detect over many years. >> >> So I thought such a bug might be temporary and might prevent LinkedIn >>from refusing to scroll through more than a month of comments, so >> this morning I managed to scroll down through circa 3 months of >> comments. >> >> LinkedIn is legally obligated to provide copies of comments, but >> LinkedIn acts illegally. If you want to back up comments which you >> uploaded to LinkedIn, then now might be the time to back them up. >> >> LinkedIn forced me to spend tens of minutes to scroll through circa 3 >> months of comments. I used Microsoft Edge to >> "Save as type: Webpage, complete", producing an 86-megabytes copy. I >> used Microsoft Egde to produce an unsatisfactory 249-page, >> 238-megabytes PDF copy (Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF). Sic. 238 >> megabytes versus 86 megabytes for only the same comments. >> >> Uploading this PDF version to Insomnia 24/7 took circa twenty minutes. >> >> Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file. >> >> Much worse problems related to Microsoft are alleged by e.g. >> HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/LinkedIn >> and >> HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/Microsoft >> >> (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!) > > LinkedIn is 99% trash, so it's a great way to waste time and not > design electronics. > > I have used it to find talent, which works fairly well. One cheap ad > can spin up hundreds of applicants and the presentation makes them > fast to evaluate. > > Not so sure about that...I seem to be getting far more hits/interest since I retired than I ever did when I wanted a job..! > > > > > John Larkin > Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center > Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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