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Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

emergentcypher wrote: post #15

s9ix wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/36870/is-includi...

Put another way: all security is security through obscurity. Whether we're guessing URLs or brute-forcing passwords, logging HTTP traffic or keylogging someone's machine. I hardly see the difference. It's not easy to tell where "obscurity" ends and "security" begins.

Obscurity is when the secret part is entirely based on one side of the transaction (I hope they don't find this URL) whereas security involves secrets on both sides that must be discovered (here is a key exchange where we both know a secret thing).

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by simonswords82 » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:16 PM UTC

As a B2B SaaS app founder I dream of the day when our app generates this type of positive, organic coverage so effortlessly. It's no wonder Slack are growing at such a rate, they've built something that provides a serious amount of value to people.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:16 PM UTC

Right now my wife and I just use Google calendar and iMessage, but I can see a time soon when my child can speak, read and type where it might be handy to have a group chat.

Although reading this now I wonder if it would be handy to have this for my in-laws who all live in the area, since right now we all have to coordinate via email.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by visakanv » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

ritonlajoie wrote: post #14

Nice use of slack. Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I'm thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook/g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I'm missing something better ? The first requirement is that anybody m…

Why not just create a Facebook group? What features are you missing?

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by jzig » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

kingnight wrote: post #18

What is this curl script that calls out to Find My iPhone... I'm surprised that the web api is trivial enough to script but would love to use it.

Agreed that was probably the most interesting tidbit for me to read in the article. I never considered using Slack integrations for personal use cases but it was nice to read about it here.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by zrail » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

kingnight wrote: post #18

What is this curl script that calls out to Find My iPhone... I'm surprised that the web api is trivial enough to script but would love to use it.

It's not really scriptable, but if you look at the network traffic you can "copy as curl" one of the URLs that pop up as you're playing with "Find My Friends" on icloud.com and paste it into a terminal. It will return a JSON blob with geo information of all of your friends.

I don't know how long the cookie that "copy as curl" grabs lasts, but if it's long-lived I can absolutely see dropping it into a little script and feeding the lat/long into a static Google Maps tile URL.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by sosuke » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:20 PM UTC

ritonlajoie wrote: post #14

Nice use of slack. Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I'm thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook/g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I'm missing something better ? The first requirement is that anybody m…

I've been working on something, just specs right now, to handle just that scenario. Something I'll have open source. It is a problem and not a small one.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by lfx » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

_b8r0 wrote: post #19

For those who don't want to use Slack but want some sort of family automation, Huginn[1] may be useful. [1] - https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

wow! cool tool, thanks for the link!

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by rekoros » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #23

Right now my wife and I just use Google calendar and iMessage, but I can see a time soon when my child can speak, read and type where it might be handy to have a group chat. Although reading this now I wonder if it would be handy to have this for my in-laws who all live in the area, since right now we all have to coordinate via email.

But how would you deal with losing history? 10K messages is not very many.

I've been using gmail/gtalk for ~12 years -- I can quickly dig up (and regularly do) pretty much anything my parents and I ever talked about. I consider this to be the killer feature (vs, say, hotmail, where I had to keep deleting messages because of the 10MB limit, back in the day).

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by veritas20 » Mon, Feb 01, 2016, 5:24 PM UTC

Seems like a great use of Slack. Unfortunately, my first and only experience with Slack has not been a fantasy. I joined a public slack on startups and everytime I check, I'm 100+ messages behind. Seems like a giant chat room.

I'm missing the magic.