Re: good post on LinkedIn

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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 uploaded them to

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.

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,

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.

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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.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

In sci.electronics.design John Larkin snipped-for-privacy@glen--canyon.com wrote: |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |"LinkedIn is 99% trash, so it's a great way to waste time and not | |design electronics." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

David Bishop had recommended me to create a LinkedIn account to try to find a job which actually pays money. This is why I created an account on LinkedIn. Mister Bishop means well, but LinkedIn fails at the only task which I created this account for.

A person who used to contribute more than 700 articles to comp.lang.vhdl who promotes VHDL a lot on LinkedIn likes a recent LinkedIn comment by me that comp.lang.vhdl is for works, but the newest comp.lang.vhdl article by him that I detect is dated 2021.

Alas persons use LinkedIn instead of the USENET. LinkedIn is not good at threads. LinkedIn is not good at archiving reliably.

LinkedIn is not good for detailed discussions.

I do not find it to be a complete waste of time though, as non-engineers who are important to me find it convenient to use.

A purported electronic engineer follows me on LinkedIn since the Year

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If I would be hiring then I would want to see that a candidate contributes to the USENET. (S.

In sci.electronics.design John Larkin wrote: |-------------------------| |"What do you want to do?"| |-------------------------|

Thanks for asking.

I am a space engineer who wants to read reliability in scientific publications but instead real publications are overrun by lies by subventions fraudsters.

I do want ethical workplaces and employees' welfare to exist.

I want to convince persons that coding should be done in a strongly typed language. (S.

Absolutely!

So you are a coder?

When I program (which I avoid) I do it in PowerBasic. It lets you do most anything.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

In sci.electronics.design John Larkin wrote: |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |">I am a space engineer who wants to read reliability in scientific | |>publications but instead real publications are overrun by lies by | |>subventions fraudsters. | | | |Absolutely!" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Thanks for agreeing!

|--------------------------------------------------------------------| |"So you are a coder?" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Why else would I care so much about comp.lang.vhdl?

|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"When I program (which I avoid) I do it in PowerBasic. It lets you do| |most anything." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I did not detect a reference to PowerBasic on your website, whereas I did detect references to 3 languages (including VHDL) on your website.

I am reminded about a bizarre job interview which I was once the candidate in. That job advertisement very prominently shows that that job is a C# job, but that company's owner moaned to me during that interview about C#. "A language without pointers is not a language!" said he himself incorrectly.

Actually I detected references to 4 languages on your website if we count English. Cf.

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The only electronics I did as a kid was to build a completely passive crystal set - the only non-linear element was a diode.

I didn't get into electronics until I was a graduate student - and I got into Fortran first. It doesn't seem to have been too late.

That depends on the journal, and the referees they can find to peer-review the papers that get submitted for publication.

My wife edited a couple of psycholinguistic journals for a while, and finding good referees took a lot of work (and she was good at it).

Review Scientific Instruments couldn't find good referees for papers with electronic content for many years, and I've published rude comments about it there from time to time.

That usually means becoming active in a trade union, which employers don't like.

But not elegantly. It's one small step up from assembler, which lets you do absolutely everything.

Basic was Fortran dumbed down for small processors.

At one job the computer manager was terrified of hackers, so I couldn't run any kind of compiled program, and had to do my number crunching in Excel. Our sub-contractor didn't have any trouble translating the procedures into executable code, but it did waste a lot of my time.

I think we may quote that in replies to some of your future posts.

I built one, too. First thing that worked for me, apart of lamps and batteries.

We had Europawelle Saar on 1422 KHz maybe 10 miles away, pumping

What's your

That was my guide: <

Gerhard

I think that you could a bunch of light from an antenna and a good LED, in a city with a lot of transmitters. The design would be interesting.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

If you actually understand electronics, you are in demand.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

In case this post is too long: I do not recommend any of you to bother to create an account on LinkedIn. The USENET is much better, but I interact on LinkedIn with important non-engineers who insist on using LinkedIn. One of the most important thereof even almost does not use emails!

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:36:44 - |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |"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" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

How?

"User Agreement Effective on November 3, 2025 [. . .]

|--------------------------------------------------| |" -- instead | |of trying to encapsulate it in a single document."| |--------------------------------------------------|

I saved hundreds of comments from years into a single document because LinkedIn does not even pretnd to offer a less laborious way of backing them up. I do not want this lame method. LinkedIn forces me.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:36:44 - |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"> 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!)." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |------------------------------------------------------------| |"Another way to waste resources (in this case, your time!)."| |------------------------------------------------------------|

Sorry, Don Y contradicts himself at 12:36:44 and 17:56:54. Time is measured as a value more than no second. These metrics are meaningful.

It took me many tens of minutes to use a webbrowser to download circa

Instead, it took me circa 18 MINUTES to use a USENET client to download 289 articles from alt.comp.periphs.cdr.mac

I.e. LinkedIn is slow and the USENET is fast.

N.B. that USENET client was invoked as a background process via setsid & so I myself could concurrently do something interesting and useful, whereas to archive from LinkedIn I used a tedious webbrowser with a PgDn key in a manner less pleasurable than watching paint dry, while hoping that Microsoft Egde would not again emit: "!

This page is having a problem

Try coming back to it later.

You could also:

• Open a new tab

• Refresh this page"

These circa 352 LinkedIn comments take up circa 86 MEGAbytes or 238 MEGAbytes.

Instead these 289 alt.comp.periphs.cdr.mac articles take up 772 KILObytes.

I.e. LinkedIn is excessively inefficient. As Don Y is lucky enough to not use LinkedIn, he does not know that all LinkedIn comments are small because LinkedIn imposes an excessive limitation.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:36:44 - |------------------------------------------------------------| |"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??)" | |------------------------------------------------------------|

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |"On 1/30/2026 7:24 AM, legg wrote: | |[. . .] | | | |[...] LinkedIn. AFAICT, it just lets folks advertise other people | |that they know/endorse. The practical effect of that is referrals| |(which is another way of saying "get jobs")." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Don Y sent these paragraphs to the UseNET as a NETWORKING exercise, whether or not he has "more than enough work".

LinkedIn is a networking website.

LinkedIn is MARKETED as "a way to "get jobs"" which is VERY DIFFERENT FROM ACTUALLY BEING "a way to "get jobs"".

I repost many job advertisements on LinkedIn. (This is a signifcant reason for a person (and apparently persons) following me on LinkedIn, even though said person owns his own (probably profitable) company and probably does not need such a job and probably shall not apply for such a job and if he does, then he really does not need LinkedIn for it anyway.) I warn in many of these reposts that this employer is evil.

One student was interested in one of these jobs but it is an unpaid internship in a continent which he would have to move to in an extortionately expensive neighborhood, so I warned him and I gave him a tip on a way to find an apartment if he really would go thru with it.

Precisely no LinkedIn post and no LinkedIn comment by me is a job application. I use LinkedIn to communicate with real contacts, like the USENET, except that one USENET article by me is an application for a job.

No one who ever follows me on LinkedIn or who connected with me on LinkedIn or who invited me to connect with him or her on LinkedIn ever applies to me for a job.

Indeed, overworked professionals invited me to connect with them on LinkedIn in 2025. I offered to contract them. One replied declining explaining that he is not competent for this would-be contract, so he contacted a colleague for me. I did not get a response from a different one, but he is busy with even more significant projects. ("Newsweek" began publishing an article by him during January 2026. He also publishes articles in major international newspapers. He is not "lacking... (REAL contacts"! I did not receive a response from him to contract him, but he did thank me for detecting that LinkedIn suppressed an exposé by him.

I already had "more than enough work" when I created an account on LinkedIn. I had not a job which actually pays money when I created an account on LinkedIn - and LinkedIn alas did not change this. Cf.

LinkedIn is not just to "advertise other people that they know/endorse." LinkedIn also lets discussions, but LinkedIn does not do so well.

Legg wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:24:48 - #---------------------------------------------------------------# #"[. . .] # #It has groups, similar to Facebook, [. . .] # #[. . .] # # # #20yrs ago it was pretty useful. [. . .] # #[. . .] # # # #Tapping into 20 year old threads (where all the good references# #and articles were being discussed)in such a group is well-night# #impossible." # #---------------------------------------------------------------#

True. Accessing such old USENET threads is easy. Scrolling thru a few years of LinkedIn comments results in Microsoft Edge screwing up with:

"!

This page is having a problem

Try coming back to it later.

You could also:

• Open a new tab

• Refresh this page"

Legg wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:24:48 - #-----------------------------------------------------------------# #"Like Facebook, it is heavily dependent on your machines' RAM and# #is unfriendly to non-google, non-chrome browsers. This may be # #why Edge is having issues: it would serve MS right. # # # #RL" # #-----------------------------------------------------------------#

LinkedIn is limited whatever way one accesses it. This is not specific to Microsoft Edge. Microsoft owns LinkedIn.

Legg posted via X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 which is not a "google," "chrome browser".

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |-----------------------------------------------------------------| |"On 1/30/2026 7:24 AM, legg wrote: | |[. . .] | |> Networking is just keeping track of co-workers and professional| |> acquaintances - but there's no real controls on spam. | | | |And, you need a third-party "site" to do that?" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

Yes, because they insist on using LinkedIn.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |------------------------------------------------------------| |"If I'm contacted about a potential job, I think about the | |people that I know who might be appropriate (because anyone | |that I refer for a position is a reflection on me!). | |Who (if anyone) I contact is based on my knowledge of where | |their interests lie and what they might be doing, presently.| | | |I know those things because of communications with them | | directly -- not by "reading about them" on a site." | |------------------------------------------------------------|

Good. Exactly as the aforementioned person who contacted a colleague for me for a project which I propose.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:05:31 - |-----------------------------------------------------------| |"Similarly, if I am contacted about a particular employer, | |client or potential employee, I can give a candid appraisal| |without fear of reprisals or running afoul of legalities." | |-----------------------------------------------------------|

Good unlike LinkedIn. LinkedIn offers a thumb-up icon without a thumb-down icon. LinkedIn wants you to say that a person is good. LinkedIn does not want you to say that a person is bad.

Legg wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:22:45 - #-----------------------------------------------------------# #"It used to be a discussion of work-related issues and news# #between people you knew, or were introduced to on-site. # #Jobs or contracts seldom came up, as I recall. Participants# #were just too disparate in specialized fields. # # # #[. . .] # # # #Supplying references to articles and publications was the # #primary benefit, as well as keeping in touch." # #-----------------------------------------------------------#

Yes. (S.

The editors have to find the referees. The IEEE does publish a lot of peer-reviewed scientific journal - some of them quite good - but the quality of a publication depends on the quality of the papers submitted to it for publication. A good editor can fish for papers from promising potential contributors, but if the community of researcher's being served isn't up to much, the journal serving them won't be either.

My wife could be quite eloquent on the topic.

Since the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure, nobody sensible would bother to quibble

Accountants have to explain what they are doing to other accountants, and Excel won't let you do anything that is hard to explain. I could have done the job much faster in Fortran - in which I got fluent around

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------| |"the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure"| |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

True. (S.

Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |"> N.B. Bill Sloman misused "learned" instead of "learnt". | | | |It's not a misuse, merely a regional variant." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear Doctor Sloman,

A use of "learned" instead of "learnt" is a regional misuse.

|--------------------------------------------------------| |"Many Dutch kids learn French[. . .] from an early age."| |--------------------------------------------------------|

I used to be employed in the Netherlands by an employer whose languages are French and English. The Anglophones who used to be employed by this then employer then vastly outnumber the Francophones who used to be employed by this employer then.

A then Anglophone neigbour used to persecute a then workmate who natively speaks French and who at that time used to work in French and English, by repeatedly saying to him in English (not French) that he must speak Dutch.

A friend of Belgian nationality told me that persons of Dutch nationality say things to her like "Wow! You can speak French!"

I detected noone in the Netherlands using French when I used to reside there, except for coworkers.

All then employees then in this section of this then employer are Anglophones. A majority (55%) are Francophones, an unusually high proportion. This then chief is natively a Francophone. English is this project's language.

A Dutch then company (before it went bust) on this project tried to apply for money to a French centre for an unrelated project. This Dutch ex-company's ex-chiefs are of Dutch nationality. They wanted to know if a tender must show a proposed price including tax or excluding tax. So they telephoned this French centre to ask. They did try asking in broken French, but they rapidly reverted to English while they frantically reached for their French dictionary to find a French word for tax. Given this lack of preparation and given this anti-engineering belief, this ex-company deservedly went bust.

|-----------------------------------------------------------------| |"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] German [. . .] from an early age."| |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

I bought German magazines from a person of Dutch nationality who used to be raised in the Netherlands near the German border. He used to buy them by short travels into Germmany. He did not have a good grasp of German when I bought them, so he declined to use German.

|----------------------------------------------------------| |"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] English from an early age."| |----------------------------------------------------------|

Yes. "Langenscheidt Expresskurs Niederländisch" alleges that persons who speak Dutch are less good at English than they believe. I do not detect so.

|---------------------------------------------------------| |"Lots of Belgians are raised as French/Dutch bilinguals."| |---------------------------------------------------------|

Of course. "Wow! You can speak French!" said an aforementioned friend of Belgian nationality acting like persons of Dutch nationality. "Yeah. [She can speak ]A little[ French]." said she herself as a response to downplay these amazements. (S.

Bill Sloman snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"The comment is | | | |Sloman A.W. “Comment on ‘Modular digital box-car for applications in | |pulsed laser spectroscopy” Review of Scientific Instruments, 67 3763-4 | |(1996)" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Thanks.

ADSAbs.Harvard.edu and Google Scholar do show it but it was surprisingly tricky to get them to show it. It does not have a hyphen in its title. Cf.

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