Everything about the SD ecosystem feels like... I'm not sure. It seems like there are tons of different small, uncoordinated efforts, all of which have either no documentation or large plaque install scripts, and then it's all python at the bottom with all of the joys of it's package ecosystem.

And then all of these versions where they're so super smart and want access to my GD and an API token to some account of mine? Christ, it would be so, so, so easy to weaponize one of these, add some screenshots and "beat" the original and harvest some Google Drive goodies.

In a, I guess I'll say, less frustrating world... there'd be a Nice or Guix expression and it would be relatively trivial to just launch it anywhere Linux and GPU exists.

There are Stable Diffusion notebooks out there that don't require GDrive access and run fine in Colab.

Run it on a burner Gmail account

In addition to having a google account without any sensitive info, running everything in VMs locally should become a standard practice

Colab runs everything remotely unless you point it at a locally installed Jupyter runtime.

How does one make a burner Gmail account these days? Last I tried, a unique phone number was required.

if your goal is to have an empty Drive you can reuse the same number to create a new account.

Edit: i just created a new account from my smartphone without a number

Get a burner SIM card ?

Much like you'd use a sandbox VM to test untrusted code locally, you could use a sandbox google account to work with untrusted Colabs.

Probably if you know how to run the notebook you might also know how to quickly go through the code and see if it might do a potential harm to your hard drive.

I dont see a big deal TBH.

Buuuuut.... Notice that it appears this repo contains precompiled binaries and no obvious link to the source....

This is literally running some binary blob and giving it access to a big chunk of your digital life. If it were malicious, all it would need to do is steal the token and then upload some illegal images and your whole Google account will be permabanned.