From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:36:44 -0700, Don Y   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 1/29/2026 7:26 AM, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Why not just scrape the site and periodically update that -- instead   
   >of trying to encapsulate it in a single document.   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >None of hose metrics mean anything.  It takes me an hour to get to the post   
   >office (on foot!).   
   >   
   >I can't comment on LinkedIn as no one that I know uses it.   
   >My understanding (?) is that it is a networking site -- a   
   >way to "get jobs".   
   >   
   >Most of my colleagues have more than enough work without   
   >any sort of "advertising" or "job mining".  Makes you wonder   
   >what the folks using it are lacking...  (REAL contacts??)   
      
      
   I signed up to LinkedIn so I could post a job opening for an intern.   
   He only lasted 6 weeks; then I made him full-time. Another story.   
      
   I think that LinkedIn is mostly spammers and unemployed coders and   
   avoid all the connections, although I occasionally swap messages with   
   Mike Engelhardt, which is cool. He has interesting opinions about RF   
   design.   
      
   LinkedIn, like most of the internet and phones, is mainly a way to   
   waste time.   
      
      
      
   John Larkin   
   Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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