Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: good post on LinkedIn Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:54:50 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 112 Message-ID: References: <2983bc07-a132-6dc9-aef3-523789a027c1@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK> <5e0a38da-0e01-3cfa-3eec-cf3b29a5bb41@insomnia247.nl> <10j77ll$12g8$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10lfqlq$3ji9g$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10lj0mj$2b3ij$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="83864375aa95f1a41412f20cdb5fe640"; logging-data="2740479"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+7XM0cJJDPEEgocgqLgRXg" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/l1W82VIQlYeuYWLmAsWTesJLHM= Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:32497 sci.electronics.design:739932 On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:27:14 -0800, wmartin 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 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