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From: wwm@wwmartin.net
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:
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>> I myself wrote on
>> Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:40:07
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>> ||"Happy New Year
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>> ||This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness.
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>> ||(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto
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>> ||time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This uns
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>> ||incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely
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>> ||6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025
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>> ||This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa
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>> ||kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025
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>> ||download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dv
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>> ||Many LinkedIn problems o
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>> ||This page is having a proble
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>> ||Try coming back to it later
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>> ||You could also
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>> ||* Open a new ta
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>> ||* Refresh this page
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>> ||happened during this December misadventure
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>> ||LinkedIn is so lame
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>> ||On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments
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>> ||me from more than 4 weeks previously.
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>> |LinkedIn made me lose circa 566 megabytes and many tens of minutes
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>> |download circa the last 4 weeks of LinkedIn comments by myse
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>> |(excluding comments in this timeframe which LinkedIn stopped
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>> |to me), and almost 2 hours to upload these downloaded backups.
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>> |four weeks of comments are not many comments but LinkedIn forces
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>> |author to lose excessive amounts of megabytes and time to save
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>> |personal data, or to lose such personal data. LinkedIn i
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>> |unsatisfactory
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>> |I also noticed on 01/01/2026 that LinkedIn restricted Microsoft
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>> |feature of Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF to print to a s
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>> |piece of paper (i.e. a tiny excerpt of weeks of comments) but
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>> |used to let Microsoft Edge make big PDF files even as recently
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>> |Tuesday 30th December 2025. E.g
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Uploading this PDF version to Insomnia 24/7 took circa twenty minutes.
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>> Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file.
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>> 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
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>> (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.
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>
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..!
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> John Larkin
> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
> Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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