Elena Rossini ⁂

@elenarossini

Italian filmmaker, media critic and Fediverse + FOSS advocate living in Paris, France. Self-hosting aficionada. My main social media accounts are on the Fediverse; all my links:

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Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini· 28d

The magic of #MeshCore: with these teeny tiny antennas and Heltec units I am able to communicate with a friend who lives 380km away, across the Alps. No WiFi or 4G connection necessary... just #LoRa 📡❤️

a photo of two LEGO custom builds housing Heltec v3 LORA units. On the left: a rainbow-colored structure with a hole in the middle to accommodate the Heltec and its battery and on top there's a LEGO female minifig with long wavy brown hair holding the antenna. She's sitting at a LEGO desk with a purple laptop and a cup of coffee in front and there are two plants and candles as decorations. Behind there's a gold flag. On the right: a second LEGO structure in various shades of blue housing a second Heltec unit, plugged into power via USB-C. At the top there's a second female LEGO minifig holding the antenna and behind her there's another gold flag. In the background of the photo you can see a black printer

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini· 29d

The #MeshCore Heltec repeater is up and running splendidly - in a custom-built #LEGO case I adore

a rainbow-colored LEGO structure with a hole in the middle that houses my Heltec v3 unit and its battery - the antenna cord goes up and it's a minifig on top of the structure - that looks like me - who holds the Heltec antenna in its hand. The minifig is sitting on an orange transparent stool and has a desk with a cup and a purple laptop in front

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini· 29d

Today's goal: setting up my first #MeshCore repeater for better connectivity 🚀

a photo of a laptop with rainbow-colored keys and a sticker of Agnès Varda and next to it there is a tiny Heltec v3 unit - my meshcore companion with a battery plugged in

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini· Jun 29

More good news for #WSocial: with this article - the fifth in my series - I will officially retire from this beat. I find this to be the perfect epilogue 🥲 🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-b...

a screenshot of my blog post that reads:

Update at 14:38 CET: the issue has been fixed

Dev 2 just wrote to me on Signal, saying: "miraculously - only hours after publishing your article Elena - the issue seems to be resolved."

Dev 1 added: "The question is who fixed it? I'd be willing to bet a Bluesky engineer saw that article and just did the fix, rather than letting W Social wander around aimlessly."

Dev 2: "Yeah, probably."

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini· Jun 17

This was definitely NOT on my bingo card for this year: European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen taking a moment between G7 meetings to promote the launch of the closed-source, for-profit network #WSocial. 🔗 : web.archive.org/web/20260617... It may be a harbinger of things to come

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini· Jun 6

Sorry I was really far away and this was the best I could do, but I wanted to take a pic with @blackskyweb.xyz on screen behind you and @rude1.blacksky.team

A photo of JD and Rudy up on stage at the Open Social awards in Amsterdam receiving the Excellence Award

Elena Rossini ⁂@elenarossini· Jul 24