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From: jl@glen--canyon.com
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:
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>>> I myself wrote on
>>> Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:40:07
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>>> |"I myself wrote
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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 un
atisfactorily ||
>>> ||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.d
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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 mys
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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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>>> |[. . .
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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
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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.
>>>
>>> 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.
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>>> 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
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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..!
>>
If you actually understand electronics, you are in demand.
John Larkin
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