2 posts tagged with "privacy"

ChatGPT and Claude are great tools, but do you ever hesitate before typing something work-related or personal into them? On the other hand, setting up a local GPU environment to run Ollama yourself is a steep barrier in terms of both effort and cost.

So I built a private LLM chat environment using Google Colab's free GPU — one that never sends conversation logs outside the instance — and packaged it into a single notebook. Run the cells from top to bottom, and it's ready to go.

Today I'm releasing Colab Mosaic Clip — an open-source tool that applies a mosaic or solid-color mask to any time range and region of a video, entirely through a GUI, and exports the result as MP4. It runs ffmpeg and Pillow on Google Colab, so everything from specifying the time range to placing mosaic regions and exporting the final file is handled inside the notebook UI.