EU Cyber Resilience Act and RISC OS

there are ways to negotiate contracts

When you’re doing work for somebody who is supposed to be a friend…

Plus, I had his agreement on the layout. He was the one who didn’t stick to it, and I was the idiot that wanted to be helpful instead of saying “I did exactly as asked now pay up”.

Still, every such event hones my cynicism… ;)

Some examples of text fields:

I think you’re mixing up MIDI files with MIDI data. They aren’t the same.

Byte &FF is a reset. It takes no parameters.
So that would appear to serial MIDI as a reset followed by some junk data that’ll likely be ignored until a top bit set character is seen (which will be a command or the start of one).

https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/table-1-summary-of-midi-message

remember want and need in this dimension can mean completely different things

In life, want and need often are different…

it’s not sufficient anymore in this day and age, so the requirements have changed, right? ;)

Yup. And finally we’re back to the CRA of the topic by noting that security is a major concern these days.
It wasn’t a big deal in the time of Arthur because Econet was pretty slow, Ethernet was prohibitively expensive, and since memory and storage cost silly money people didn’t keep their lives on the computer. Plus those were the days when some banks still used books written by pen, and had people to talk to…so it was usually better to gain physical access to a computer as stealing it would be more valuable than whatever data was on it.

Fast forward three and a half decades, it’s damned near impossible to do anything with an actual piece of paper, everything is online. I pay my electricity online, my banking is online, fast food and shopping (I don’t use those) and… so many different apps and sites, so many times the average person picks a password and uses it…a lot. Couple that with connectivity where loads of devices are always on and with a data speed usually measured in tens of megabits. Gaining remote access to a machine and ripping off data within can have plenty of real world consequences. If it’s a machine in a business, well maybe it has enough identity information on all the employees to allow any number of identity frauds to happen.
So, security, really an important issue these days, as unfettered access to the internet may well equate to unfettered access from the internet. All because your toaster didn’t bother to validate a URL that was made globally accessible via a dynamic DNS setup ¹, and somebody found it and stuck a rootkit in there, scanned the LAN, spotted the PC, and then blew a hole in the router using UPNP…
[my own servers get enough chatter on the open ports that this sort of thing is largely automated and just scans IP addresses one after the other]

But, alas, as has been noted, RISC OS is from a simpler more trusting age when politicians worked for the people, bobbies walked the streets, and free-range kids were a thing.

It’s a different world now.

¹ Example: https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20170121

I think you’re mixing up MIDI files with MIDI data. They aren’t the same.

It’s possible yes, but for some reason I remember we can send a text string over MIDI by starting a meta event (0xFF) of type 1 (0×01) then a string of ascii characters. Maybe I remember wrong it’s been a long time since last MIDI coding work…

It’s a different world now.

Indeed