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Hi there, so far I have not considered GitHub as an OAuth service provider, also usable for external, productive apps, but this rough idea came always into my mind since some time. So I wanted to check now if and how that could be possible. The info about terms and conditions is a little unclear to me, about that OAuth Application from GitHub: https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-oauth-apps/creating-an-oauth-app https://membrane-soa.org/service-proxy-doc/4.2/oauth2-github.htm https://docs.readme.com/docs/setting-up-github-oauth I assume that a GitHub account >= Pro, can be used as a normal OAuth-Service provider, also for external apps not hosted on GitHub itself. Since I cannot find a lot information about these terms, I am very unsure if this is a good idea, or recommended only for development purposes. Who is using such already in productive applications ? What I can see that GitHub allows up to 100 OAuth services, and I see no difference especially for development or production. Are there special hidden costs, when using this productive, or is this all in the flat cost of the account ( which would starting from a Pro account at 4 USD/month, including up to 100 OAuth applications ) ? Are there special terms that forbid such kind of usage, outside the scope of GitHub projects ? Are there any technical restrictions that may bite me in a productive system ( any resources/packages occupied per app, performance, access limits, transfer limits, or the like ) ? If that is all OK, I think this would mean that GitHub is a very cost effective OAuth provider, only I cannot really believe that. Maybe somebody here has experiences with using GitHub as service provider, and would like to give some tips and and share recommendations ?

Ok, I see. Yes, it should be it, but stange that the issuer name is in the list below, but not the issuer key. I thought that several Issuers could be possible, it looks like there can be only one, or is it different for the currently logged in user ? I would have expected this issuer key near to the key's issuer name in the list below.

Yes, I think its just kind of access-token, and Apple recommends also a quite short lifetime < 20min for the token, to be accepted. By the way, I think all this is still beta probably, and I know Apple for changing a lot when its about improving security 🙂

Yes, this was also my first thought, but I have checked that the Jose JWT library adds this "JWT" (uppercase) automatically. But maybe worth to doublecheck, if this stays like that also after creation. The notes about URL are interesting, but I think Apple uses this in its own way. I also thought some times to use JWT Token, to create some unique, secured data, but without URL, that should make sense too IMHO. Did you get if from the AppStoreConnect, user section ? I see all the user/roles, etc. but no such ID anywhere. The problem I see is that I have several entries there anyway, under the same "Name", probably even with different Apple-Ids. If this is from the MemberCenter/Certification section, I cannot spot it either. I would assume that this is maybe taken from a different item, not the one that Apple wants to see here. Nevertheless, Apple seems not havin explained that origin very well.

Hi Dave, how does the AIssuer looks like ? It should be like 57246542-96fe-1a63-e053-0824d011072a , but I cannot find this from the Users table or anywhere else. Where did you get this from ?

Hi there, I received my OpenAI beta test account recently, after waiting for that more than a year now. Finally I was very much excited about the AI capabilities, as I watched the amazing Youtube series of GPT3 Leta from Dr. Alan Thompson, who is experimenting with the DaVinci model and avatars to provide a real human chat experience. This machine will easily pass the turing test IMHO. Well, but when I first checked the Playground, I found the GPT3 models were not so much evolved as I expected. I also tried out the REST API, with the same disapointing outcome. GPT3 often gives completely wrong answers, mostly doesn't understand anything at all, not even a name or very basic texts, and all in all its far from capabilities of the Leta series I mentioned above. So maybe this is the case because I have not provided enough or wrong training data, but there is also no real explanation howto provide information, and especially what data would be really needed, to enable GPT3 to deliver most useful results. In the meantime during waiting for GPT3 access, I already tried GPT-J and tried others, but they all were not especially "intelligent" neither in understanding normal texts nor in providing real world answers (like: who won the latest nobel price in physics ?). Now I would say GPT3 is on a same level as GPT-J, at least when it comes to a unspecific chat application. What is Dr. Thompson's secret to make it so clever ? I assume that all GPT3 models use the same training data ( it was mentioned that training data was used only from the time until year 2018 ), so that also Dr. Thompson's machine should be using the same data. I wanted to ask if anybody here in DP had also some AI experiences, and maybe could squeeze better results out of GPT3 ? Would be great to exchange some tips and hints. howto handle AI best.

I absolutely agree, I have Alexa, Siri (only Google Assistant is more clever ), but they all are miles away from this Leta series. I am not talking about those, but the GPT3 (Leta) videos in the link above, which is in an experimental, closed beta. Are the Leta videos then a hoax finally, I dont think so ? There are about 24 videos right now, and I think Dr. Thompson is close to many AI research teams, having a deeper insight as we could have. Since GPT3 is only a textual processor, maybe the Q/A is somewhat "beautified" before sending to the avatar and speech output. But many of Leta's answers are really astonishing, and would make AI really useful.

Don't you see any use-case, I wonder ? If the a device chat can give perfect answers, like the Leta project can do, I see a lot. Just as example for assisting people in their daily worksite, in real language, maybe by a special trainned AI which is optimized to the special field of the customers current working tasks. The AI could act as a real useful assistant, giving useful tips. But that is only one of many ideas, for the others I better let you sign an NDA No not really, I think there have been already millions of people thought about the same ideas, like always if a new technology is emerging. While OpenAI, Apple, Facebook and those kind of companies ahve already filed their patents. "... increase in income ..." Not sure how you mean that, but I think: Yes, such AI gadgets in apps and software will sell veeeery well to a lot of company and private customers in the near future, if the AI can really do a good job.

Hi there, I want to wave goodbye to Delphi 10.4.2. This was for me one of the most stable versions in the past, maybe only XE8 was similar stable and less critical for me. Yes, it had its hickups here and there, but nothing too annoying at all. It accompanied me in the last 12 months as true friend, so I wish you luck in the afterlife. Looking forward to see Rx11 as stable as its older brother, and to give me another 12 months cycle of convenient Life. The start looks very promising, lets see ...

Thanks to Darian I've noted that I had missed to update my IDE version in DP for quite some time. Just updated, of course its Rx11 now, and was Rx10.4.2 before. A good time to remind everybody to check their profiles too.

Do you mean something like Anchor ?

@Darian Miller Thanks for such list, that is very helpful. Such a general "Can-I-Use" list would be a big step to more quality, but I'm afraid this will end as fulltime job. I'm not sure if preparing such useful lists could be done with Github or other tools on-the-fly, maybe so. Anyway, I think this would be a perfect community work, to prepare especially something like Delphi polyfills, to add certain "workaround" to each issue. If anybody knows how such work could be "automated", that would be great, maybe this could be even a side-project within DP ? Anyway, my recipe to avoid most issues are the following: - don't use the latest features immediately, just observe and test, but let them "stabilize" - avoid using the latest fancy hot components, like TNumberBox, just take the time to build your own from more basic components ( I highly recommend frames for this ) - try to use only minimal, absolute necessary external components, to avoid too much external bindings - modularize your libraries, so that they can be easier be managed and replaced (if needed ), single responsibility principle is also very much true for units IMHO, so I try to decouple functions into separate spaces. - tweak the Delphi core units, whereever needed, to workaround issues and to receive the desired behaviour you want to have ( record helper or interposer) - UnitTest most of your work, to be able to spot sudden changes early

I think you could bind the Tag property too, with LiveBindings. For me the whole LB thing is also still very much unclear, whats it's BestPractices are, to get best results out of it. Until now: "Handle with care"

Why, it looks OK to me. The index shows the entries from 0 ... nn, the Tag determines what item you have. If you filter, then the index might change, I think that is correct.

@mitzi Thanks a lot. This could make some backed up WinXP VMs with old XP projects obsolete, if we can compile them in current Rx11 too. Lets utilize the free'd disk-space with some new, astonishing and modern FMX project's

Simpler, yes, but the "Ex" receives also more information Especially the ItemObject is quite handy, to select the right sub-component in the TListItem, which you are interested in.

In ancient past versions I had some issues from time to time, on various platforms, not sure what the root cause of them was. Anyway, I only can say that since I moved completely to ItemClickEx I had no more issues. Maybe everything is OK now, in the last Delphi versions.

I rely on ItemClickEx only, for all purposes, this works best IMHO.

Not sure if you really propose to use that ? The first seems to be a joke only, and will be probably offline very soon. The latter could be self-hosted, but requires node.js environment. When looking for the simplest possible solution, why not looking after PHP ? The sites can be very cheap, and even if you install WordPress (ab)using its REST API, it could not be much simpler. If you set up a REST API only, thats also quite simple with PHP too. What is your main goal (Price, Self-Hosting, 0-Setup, Stability, Safety, Longterm availability, Support, Memory footprint, Performance, ... ) ? Thats a little unclear to me, from your examples above.

Thanks for the info, that looks very interesting. What is unclear to me, does it depend on Bass.dll ?

It has good and bad sides, as always.

Yes, that is what they WANT you believe .... I still prefer to have cash in the pocket. Digital currency, not bound to any real value, allows the FED's and covernments to set its value at will. This opens all doors to very ugly manipulations, control and value transfers, which is controlled from the government. They tell us the story of crime and corruption, so that we forget to give it a second thought. For example, the EU FED already has their hands already in sorts of directly supporting countries, governments, banks, etc. ... WAIT: What was the one and only task of the FED again ? Yes, to ensure price stability (NOTHING ELSE).

In Germany banks silently rised their fees and conditions over the past years. Only recently a judgement was mad, which allows bank customers to set back to their original conditions, when they opened the account. Unfortunately this goes back unly until 2018, but at least this may count up to 200-300 EUR, or maybe more, depending on the use case. I think it was an EU law that triggered the judgement. Yes, I also think the fee's are to high ( for a fully automated process ). The banks will get obsolete anyway in a few years, when all countries managed to launch "digital currenries", and the FED's take over. I think no one needs these greedy imtermediate money grabbers anymore soon ( but then we're dependent from FED's and completely transparent, which opens a whole bunch of other nasty issues too )

Interesting idea, you intend to open PDF in the default browser, right ? What prerequisites do you need for that, does all modern browser have PDF viewer already integrated ? I think Firefox can do that without any AddOn, but I'm not so sure about all the others ( Chrome, Edge ).

This is a class, not an enum. I think the advantage of enum ist, that you can use a "speakable name" to identify a numeric value. If you enhance this class to store also the name of an enum, you get closer, but you still cannot simply use "AVariable := TMyDynamicEnumType.FancyEnumName; ", I think this is what bravesofts is asking for. Ok, you could use specific class properties as names for each enum, but still hard to dynamically enhance that.