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Re: good post on LinkedIn

From john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded, sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: good post on LinkedIn
Date 2026-01-30 18:54 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <amrqnk1h9puhtpj2sllfg0s66ef7e3i2rc@4ax.com> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <a466fba3-4f96-5968-faef-db94f1e721a5@insomnia247.nl> <10j77ll$12g8$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10lfqlq$3ji9g$1@paganini.bofh.team> <nh4nnkll3df5imkg5d950227f2rhh9v26g@4ax.com> <10lj0mj$2b3ij$2@dont-email.me>

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:27:14 -0800, wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:

>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..!
>> 

If you actually understand electronics, you are in demand.


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 <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-29 14:26 +0000
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