PSA: Winter 2025-'26 Mental Wellness and Care

[OriginalContentGuy]

With the solstice upon us in three days I feel it prudent for a missive to some of the presumably young(er) players that have found the forums recently, and a reminder, maybe an update for everyone else.

Winter is a season. It is a time as well as a symbol. As the sunlight waxes and as more people are relatively isolated indoors during the cold months, it can be especially stressful for both introverts and extroverts.

We are creatures that are hardwired for love and connection. The community of players here speak volumes to this: it's not pixels that makes Project 1999 great -- the people, staff and players do (including our absentee landlord Rogean who I heard now lives on a plantation in Hawaii growing beer).

Isolation is stressful and it's important to remember that the internet is not a substitute for real connection with real people (in real life, i.e. not on a computer).

Now for the update part:

It's current year where gigawatts of real-time computing power is spent curating what you see on your screens in low latency. We've most all read reports by now on people having psychotic breaks and requiring hospitalization from using ChatGPT and other LLMs. I opine that any app that promotes doom-scrolling including YouTube and Instagram and Tiktok are all probably starting to integrate if they aren't already in full operational production of real-time machine learning models able to suggest custom-tailored titles to random videos as clickbait and for monetary reasons.

You've most all seen an "AI" model hallucinate and start outputting nonsense by now I assume. What happens if an unstable and hallucinating algorithm meets an isolated and lonely person alone in the winter and starts suggesting uncanny or wierd things (and the person doesn't realize a computer is doing this)?

Check in on your friends and family this Winter. If you are someone you know is in distress please consult your local emergency services or reach our to a care provider in your area for help.

Spring will come (and so reliably you can set your clock to it). Be well and take suitable care of each other and (y)ourselves. Here's to a brand new 2026 -- and beyond. Long live Project 1999.

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[OriginalContentGuy]

God I love parentheses.

[OriginalContentGuy]

I'm sharing a screen recording taken an hour ago.

https://filebin.net/0t0hzoeko3idb86a


Commentary: this is at least the third or fourth time I have seen the behavior from my foss fork of Newpipe, called Pipepipe I just captured in this video. What do you see? I don't watch anything trending or like the content at the very end.

The embed code for that is VryFgj98WuU

I'm just reporting as I started seeing this. Now I don't have the means to check if this is something occuring on Google's servers, or if it's my app because this just started since I updated to the latest app version (4.7.6) which took place as soon as I was first notified by the app of an update.

I wrote the OP after this has happened at least twice before in very recent memory, best guess a week.

I am so far beyond fucking around or making up facts and have backups which I'm sharing made using Proofmode for Android for independent analysis.

Whatever this is deserves further scrutiny.

Screen_Recording_20251219-154255_PipePipe_1.mp4 was last modified at Dec 19, 2025 3:46:18 PM It has a SHA-256 hash of 194ea27230e512e22b6711b159291779f059a7cf74598abd07cdd4769303ab0a

This proof is signed by PGP key 0xb04081e2f8260b9b

[OriginalContentGuy]

If you have any questions I'm not planning on leaving forums or in crisis at this time and have been enjoying a slowdown of work with the season change. Tomorrow I have day plans with friends and if I don't continue checking in at intervals throughout the foreseeable future please contact relevant interests like maybe the EFF.

[OriginalContentGuy]

After checking the Issues on GitHub and comparing the SHA-1 sum of the binary I have with the official repo there, this is an app issue. I'm going to leave this for now as an exercise for the reader. Be safe, be well, and check your sources before jumping to conclusions.

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/...pe/issues/1788

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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I hope everyone is minding their allostatic load this holiday season.

Be good to each other.

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I hope everyone is minding their allostatic load this holiday season.

never, i don't plan to get the cleaning deposit back on this body once i move out.

[Smoofers]

5x mad post

[OriginalContentGuy]

What are your questions?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

never, i don't plan to get the cleaning deposit back on this body once i move out.

Unless you live in the crazy deserts of the Levant and are marauding villages to steal their lentils, imho we all should be cruising well under the operational limits of the airframe.

It's not the plane, it's the pilot friends.