Lisa Rein is walking through a working prototype of the Creative Commons app. Nice wizard. You can tell Metafilter Matt helped build the GUI — clean and tight. The screenshots on the CC site don't do it justice. I wish this was live and online, I'd generate a license for Boing Boing posts. Some audience members are being real hard-ons about the possibility of bogus license generation — what if I generate a license for your project and make a false representation that it is in the public domain. It's going to be a tough problem, for sure. And I'm not sure how they'll solve it. Gordon Mohr from Bitzi thinks that charging money is the solution, but the CC people say that there will be no fees, period. I'm not sure if CC can solve it, in the context of its app, or if this is a small piece to be loosely joined to something else that validates identity for the purposes of associating it with potentially important documents like Creative Commons licenses.
Creative Commons demo
Would you spend $650,000 to ride a transforming mecha?
Hey! Do you have $650,000 to spend? Not interested in pissing away that cash on feeding a school full of kids lunch for a few years or helping a couple… READ THE REST
Upcycle your old smart speaker with a new brain
The world is absolutely filthy with Google Home Minis. The wee smart speakers made their debut back in 2017 and were inexpensive enough to be given away by telecoms, banks… READ THE REST
France summons Musk for X criminal charges
Sam Schechner reports in The Wall Street Journal that French prosecutors have summoned Elon Musk to Paris to face preliminary criminal charges as part of their investigation into X. The… READ THE REST
If you're paying a la carte for AI models, this $60 lifetime pass gets you ChatGPT, Claude & more
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: ChatPlayground AI lets you compare GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more side-by-side in one tab—and lifetime access is… READ THE REST
Imagine never seeing a website hosting renewal email again after paying $149.99 once
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Most web hosts treat your website like a subscription. PawnHoster's King Plan would rather take your money once… READ THE REST
This HP EliteBook delivers business-class performance for $400
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: This HP EliteBook comes with a range of professional features you can depend on and software… READ THE REST
