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Re: good post on LinkedIn

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>

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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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  Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <Spamassassin@irrt.De> - 2025-08-29 16:16 +0200
    Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-01 18:52 +0100
      Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-02 01:40 +0000
        Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-29 14:26 +0000
          Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 09:04 -0800
            Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-29 17:57 +0000
              Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 10:59 -0800
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-30 00:48 +0000
                Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 17:01 -0800
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-30 01:28 +0000
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 15:14 +1100
                Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-30 11:52 -0800
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-31 16:05 +1100
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-31 12:34 +0000
                Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-31 07:29 -0800
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-01 20:59 +1100
                Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-01 03:06 -0800
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-02 00:17 +1100
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                Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-31 14:36 +0000
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-01 21:31 +1100
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                Re: good post on LinkedIn Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2026-01-30 15:06 +0100
                Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-30 11:55 -0800
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-31 13:33 +0000
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-01 01:31 +1100
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-31 19:16 +0000
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                Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-02-01 02:43 +0000
                Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn OrangeFish <OrangeFish@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-01 18:00 -0500
                Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-02-18 14:56 +0000
                Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-02-18 20:32 +0000
                Re: Sorry re history of Fortran, good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-02-18 23:20 +0000
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                Re: good post on LinkedIn Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-01 21:36 +1100
                Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-31 14:26 +0000
            Re: good post on LinkedIn wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> - 2026-01-30 11:27 -0800
              Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-30 18:54 -0800
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              Re: good post on LinkedIn Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-31 17:13 +0000
            Re: good post on LinkedIn john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-31 07:55 -0800
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