• The world's first cat video.
  
  
  It's real.  Digitally restored, colorised, and with sound added, but it was originally filmed by Louis Lumière in 1899.  (IMDB)
  
  
  
• Fixing the ending of ME3: No.  Editing Miranda's butt: Yes.  (Bounding into Comics)
  
  Mass Effect Legendary Edition is supposed to be just a graphics update, but BioWare / EA could not resist ruining that which was already good.
  
  Well, we shall see how much they've ruined in May.  I wasn't going to pre-order it anyway.
  
  Recommended specs are either an i7-7700 or a Ryzen 7 3700X, and a GTX 1070 or Vega 56.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though minimum specs are much lower than that.
  
  
  
• First rule of Disqus club is don't use Disqus.  (Supun Kavinda)
  
  You can easily add comments to any site with Disqus, whereupon it downloads 2MB of stuff across 76 HTTP requests on every page view, adds 11 third-party trackers, and shares all your data everywhere.
  
  And if you're on a paid plan it still does all of that.  And it's owned by an advertising company.
  
  The author of this piece offers his own alternative commenting platform, but the questions about Disqus are still valid.
  
  
  
• Synology's new enterprise NAS range only works with Synology disks.  (Serve the Hoe)
  
  Which are actually made by Toshiba, but no, you can't use Toshiba drives.
  
  
  
• In the first sign that there might be an actual adult in the Biden Administration, Commerce secretary nominee Gina Raimondo says Huawei should stay on the department's shitlist.  (Bloomberg)
  
  Or at least said she knows of no reason the current shitlist should be changed, which is not quite the same thing.
  
  
  
• I missed this update to an earlier side-story on the SolarWinds debacle: JetBrains wasn't hacked, and wasn't being investigated.  (ZDNet)
  
  Hackers accessed a TeamCity server at SolarWinds, apparently, but not the TeamCity codebase at JetBrains.  That would have been a significant worry.
  
  
  
• Working for the squirrel.
  
  
  Jay is Risu's audio engineer for her songs.  She does live duets with herself, so you can imagine the effort required for her recorded material.
  
  
  
• She's doing it again.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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