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[–] dai@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

www.bbc.com

Former Chick-fil-A employee charged in $80,000 mac-and-cheese scheme

Harry Sekulich

2 - 3 minutes

Grapevine Police Department/ Facebook CCTV shows a man tapping at a touch-screen register wearing a brown puffer vest, backward baseball cap and blue jeans.Grapevine Police Department/ Facebook

CCTV shows the accused at a touch-screen register where he allegedly rang up hundreds of portions of mac-and-cheese.

Texas police have charged a former Chick-fil-A employee for allegedly defrauding the fast food company of the cost of 800 trays of mac-and-cheese.

The Grapevine Police Department alleges that the employee had been fired a month earlier, but returned to a branch of the fast food chain and made his way behind the counter, where he rang up the catering-sized portions of the rich pasta dish.

They say he then refunded the cost of the order – $80,000 (£58,800) – to his personal credit cards.

Police tried to arrest him multiple times before succeeding on 17 April, the department said in a social media statement. He was charged with property theft, money laundering and evading arrest.

Getty Images Chick-fil-A restaurant logo seen in Houston, Texas.Getty Images

US media named the suspect as 23-year-old Keyshun Jones. Records show he is currently in custody at Green Bay prison in Forth Worth, Texas. The New York Times reported that Jones's lawyer declined to comment.

The Chick-fil-A catering menu lists the cost of a large tray of its mac-and-cheese at around $100 depending on location. The number of calories in the baked macaroni dish, which features three types of cheese, is almost 10,000 (40,000 kilojoules).

The Chick-fil-A store shared surveillance footage appearing to show the sacked worker returning to the store and using a register behind the service counter.

CCTV footage shows the man wearing a brown puffer vest, blue jeans and backwards white cap, not the chain's branded red polo uniform.

It is alleged he used the restaurant's point-of-sale system to issue unauthorised refunds to his personal accounts. It is unclear why he was fired before the incident.

He was eventually found and arrested following a joint operation of the Texas attorney general's Fugitive Task Force and the Fort Worth Police Department.

The BBC has contacted Chick-fil-A's media office for comment.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've got three of the old Google wifi pucks, all running openwrt. Bit of a mess around to find a working flash drive but no complaints now.

Only wifi 5 but all honesty that's all we need at home.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

You can export them from the Google authenticator app and import into something like keepassdx. Its a bit of a workaround doing such, having to read the data from the QR code but entirely possible. 

https://www.keepassdx.com/

Mine sync between devices using Syncthing, merging forked credentials is easy enough to fix too with the desktop app. 

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Berman et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eaeb3034 (2026) 1 April 2026

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Complete biosynthesis of psychedelic tryptamines from

three kingdoms in plants

Paula Berman1,2

*†, Janka Höfer 1

†, Herschel Mehlman1

, Efrat Almekias-Siegl1

, Olga Khersonsky 3

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Younghui Dong 4

‡, Uwe Heinig4

, Liron Sulimani5

, Let Kho Hao1,2

, Shahar Cohen2

, Yoav Peleg4

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Sagit Meir1

, Ilana Rogachev 1

, David Meiri5

, Sarel J. Fleishman3

, Asaph Aharoni1

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Psychedelic indolethylamines with therapeutic potential are naturally produced in plants, fungi, and animals.

Here, we elucidated the complete N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) biosynthetic pathway in hallucinogenic plant

species traditionally used in shamanic rituals for spiritual healing. Leveraging the similarities in their chemical

structures, we reconstructed in one plant assay the full biosynthetic pathways of five renowned natural psyche-

delics; psilocin and psilocybin found in mushrooms, DMT from plants, and bufotenin and 5-methoxy-DMT secret-

ed by the Sonoran Desert toad. We further engineered halogenated analogs of these molecules, which do not

naturally occur in plants and exhibit prospective therapeutic potential for psychiatric conditions. Blending cata-

lytic functions across the tree of life, coupled with metabolic engineering guided by rational protein design of

mutant enzymes, enabled substantially more efficient in planta production of the indolethylamine components.

This work establishes a versatile platform for concurrent biosynthesis and diversification of psychoactive indole-

thylamines, paving the way for their production in plants.

INTRODUCTION

For thousands of years, psychedelic substances have been used by

indigenous cultures as entheogens in rituals intended to induce al-

tered states of consciousness for spiritual and therapeutic purposes.

Psilocybin-containing mushrooms were central to ancient Aztec

ceremonies (1), while N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the pri-

mary psychoactive component of ayahuasca, has long been used

in traditional Amazonian rituals. This ceremonial brew combines

Psychotria viridis (a natural source of DMT) with Banisteriopsis caapi,

which provides β-carboline monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibi-

tors that render DMT orally active (1, 2). Similarly, 5-methoxy-N,N-

dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT), found in the secretion of

the Sonoran Desert toad (Incilius alvarius) and in several plant spe-

cies, is thought to have been used ceremonially by indigenous

groups in northern Mexico (3). 5-MeO-DMT has been described

as the most potent DMT analog, being about 4- to 10-fold more po-

tent than DMT in humans and is known to induce psychedelic ex-

periences that are distinct from those of DMT (4). Knowledge of

the traditional use of these molecules has fueled contemporary

therapeutic interest in psychedelics as treatments for neuropsychiat-

ric conditions.

Recent studies have shown that classical indolethylamine psy-

chedelics promote neuroplasticity and modulate serotonergic cir-

cuits, primarily through 5-HT 2A receptor activation (5–7). These

compounds have demonstrated therapeutic potential for depression,

anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and addiction (5–8), with psi-

locybin receiving Food and Drug Administration Breakthrough

Therapy designation for major depressive disorder in 2019 (6, 7).

Although widely considered hallucinogenic, psilocybin itself func-

tions as a prodrug, undergoing enzymatic dephosphorylation in the

digestive tract and liver to produce psilocin, the active compound

responsible for its psychoactive effects. DMT is produced by a broad

range of plant species and, in low abundance, by certain animals (2).

When administered via smoking or intravenous injection, it pro-

duces rapid and intense psychoactive effects that typically peak with-

in 5 min and subside within 30 min, due to rapid metabolism by

MAO enzymes in the liver. Coadministration with MAO inhibitors

can extend the half-life of DMT in vivo (2). The traditional use of

ayahuasca exemplifies how combining compounds from different

sources can enable oral activity; however, such combinations require

carefully balanced dosing to mitigate adverse effects associated with

MAO inhibition (9).

The expanding clinical interest in psychedelics as therapeutics

has sparked the need for scalable and versatile production platforms

and structural diversification (10, 11). Traditionally, the supply of

psychedelics relies on natural producers, mainly plants, fungi, and

the Sonoran Desert toad. Harvesting these organisms for their psy-

choactive compounds raises ecological and ethical concerns, being

increasingly threatened by habitat loss and overexploitation (12).

While synthetic routes for these compounds are available and, in

some cases, relatively straightforward, they still require compound-

specific reactants, can lead to unwanted intermediates and prod-

ucts, and require several processing steps (2, 13, 14). Biocatalys

[–] dai@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

My yard was infested with bur clover, horrible stuff when you have pets. Worse when your pets are poodle mixes. 

Other clover yeah they chill. 

[–] dai@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can play it on the original Xbox, there was a leak maybe 2020 of a prerelease / wip.

I should grab some screencaptures of the ingame, but I'm sure there are plenty out there.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My services are quite small (static website, forgejo and a couple more services) but see no performance issues.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Running 50 on one machine, four on my fileserver and another on a hacked up hp eliteone (no screen) which runs my 3d printer. Believe my immich container is a nspawn under nixos too. 

Some are a wip but the majority are in use. Mostly internal services with a couple internet facing, I've got a good backlog of work to do on some with some refactoring my nixos configs for many too 😅. 

From my Erying ES system: 

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Not your traditional TVs but look and see if you can get some TVs aimed at venues / advertising. I can see an LG IPS display, 98 inch for sub 10k AUD including shipping (98UM5J-B). 

Phillips, LG, Samsung and others offer commercial panels without the rubbish that consumer panels are infected with these days. 

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the LEDs were always handy to have, and the coloured notifications on the trackball (nexus 1) with a third party app was super cool at the time. My trackball after a few years got pretty dirty and didn't want to clean with chemicals in fear of damaging it. 

Currently using a Nothing (3) which is somewhat similar with the small led display on the back. 

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nexus one had the trackball, the hero had a sensor or did both? IDK it's been some years since I still had my nexus one. Maybe I'm thinking of the HTC Desire with the sensor. 

I do remember running the original version(s) of MIUI on my nexus one, ahh simpler times. 

[–] dai@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

“From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions – the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans and the hazard light – below the screen,” 

Climate controls are one but sure, five most important functions. Honestly rip out the touch screen, implement buttons just as they had been previously then add the display; preferably with a decent HID as Mazda have done. 

I'm still driving a mk6 golf and really can't imagine not having easy access to those features. 

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