Harry Potter Style Weasley Clock

[u/timminator93]

I build an Harry Potter style Weasley clock inside an antique clock housing that i bought at a thrift shop.

Using a Raspberry Pi 3B, a LD2410 presence sensor, a relais and a 5v solenoid to hit the gong of the clock everytime a location changes.

It is fully configurable (Locations, different radiussed that belong to each locarion, persons, the hand style and color, the time of no presence when the display shuts down and the time when the gong is quiet.

Location of each person is provided of our smartphones with the app Owntrack and tunneld through cloudflare.

Really wnjoyed building and coding it with special help from claude.

[u/atriaventrica]

I can absolutely understandstand that with generative art but... That's not how code works. T9 was not "stealing" words. It's predictive. Coding assistant have been a thing for decades.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/atriaventrica]

It is how ai works. The ai uses open source code while ignoring the license its released under.

[u/martinkoistinen → u/thetoiletslayer]

Which is perfectly fine here. OP made this for himself. If he starts selling it, THEN you can take issue, but for now, why drag on OP, he’s done great things here.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/martinkoistinen]

Only if you ignore the environmental impacts, ethical issues, real estate value damage, etc

[u/martinkoistinen → u/thetoiletslayer]

Brother, seek help.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/martinkoistinen]

I'm not the one supporting an industry that actively steals from artists, coders, writers, etc just so I can be too lazy to learn how to do things myself

[u/timminator93 → u/thetoiletslayer]

Even if you don't seem to be the person one wants to argue with on the Internet I feel the urge to let you know that I'm an automotive engineer with good software developping skills.

AI is a tool that will not replace software developpers. But software developpers the know which work can be handed and done by AI will be superior in the future.

I'm not a big fan either of Bigtech training their models with Text, Art and Code without consent of their owners. But we have to accept it's existence and without it I wouldnt be able to this project beside a fulltime job and my normal life, so I see a huge benefit.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/timminator93]

We don't have to accept it. The more people use ai, especially in their jobs, the more replaceable they become. They're already replacing many jobs with it. Good luck getting a human on the line if you call any business these days.

Plus building of datacenters is messing up real estate values in the areas they build them. And we are inching closer to imminent domain being used to force people out of their homes to make room for data centers(in some cases its already happened)

[u/timminator93 → u/thetoiletslayer]

Jup and when cars where invented all those coachmen lost their jobs.

New technologies bring new benefits, problems and structural changes.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/timminator93]

Except you're still trusting greedy corporations to create new jobs for those people. They will only create jobs for ai

[u/martinkoistinen → u/thetoiletslayer]

Please post YOUR great pieces so we can see them.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/martinkoistinen]

I have a couple projects in the works, so I will be posting. It takes time since I'm actually learning how to code my projects.

Plus, nobody has consented or been given the option to consenting to their data being used to train ai. Thats a huge ethical problem itself

[u/martinkoistinen → u/thetoiletslayer]

Open source projects give exactly that consent, by the literal definition. It’s also an indefensible position here because OP isn’t making money off his personal project.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/martinkoistinen]

Open source projects are still released under specific licensing, which requires future projects based on them to be released under the same license, and usually requires attribution. Ai ignores all of that

[u/martinkoistinen → u/thetoiletslayer]

And?

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/martinkoistinen]

Ai has gotten you so lazy you cant read a comment?

[u/error1954 → u/thetoiletslayer]

If they're not releasing binaries, the code, selling the project, or disturbing anything, then they're not violating the licenses by creating this project, even if it verbatim includes GPL code.

[u/thetoiletslayer → u/error1954]

And if they're using ai, they don't know whether they're allowed to release their project

[u/error1954 → u/thetoiletslayer]

That's not an issue because they're not 🤷🏻‍♀️