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Re: How we use Slack in our family

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For those using Slack, I recommend you to check out this to-do app http://www.zlapps.com/todo Disclaimer: I built it :)

I use this for groceries and it's great! Really easy to add items as I think of them, then check the list while at the store. Thanks for the app!

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Privacy?

Doing group chats with my family of 5 using Signal private messenger. The privacy guarantee is nice, but I'll admit there are lots of little issues in Signal group chats, often between iOS and Android.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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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…

Diaspora? http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

(Its available as apt-get install in debian unstable)

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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My wife and I use slack. In the past ~6 months we: got engage, planned a wedding, a wedding reception (2 different dates), honeymoon to Australia, a baby, a new house, and renting out our townhome. While slack is really a gussied up messaging platform, the extra polish they have on things like search, pins, and documents, made planning and executing on 3 of lifes major milestones significantly easier to manage. So fa…

You had a baby in 6 months? What CAN'T Slack do.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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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.

No, theres a huge difference.

Security through obscurity means that if the details of the algorithm are known then your secrets are no longer secret. It relys on keeping the encyption method itself secret.

Compare with most good encryption methods, if you know which algorithm was used to encrypt my hard drive you cant use that information to decrypt it. The algorithm is published and the enemy knows the system but the system is still secure.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

#106

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.

I was so intrigued with the idea of this, and didn't quite find anything I liked, that I whipped up a javascript version of this for use later. It's minimal at the moment, but it works: https://github.com/jziggas/node-icloud

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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post #104

My wife and I use slack. In the past ~6 months we: got engage, planned a wedding, a wedding reception (2 different dates), honeymoon to Australia, a baby, a new house, and renting out our townhome. While slack is really a gussied up messaging platform, the extra polish they have on things like search, pins, and documents, made planning and executing on 3 of lifes major milestones significantly easier to manage. So fa…

You had a baby in 6 months? What CAN'T Slack do.

What nine women can't, apparently!

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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My wife and I use slack. In the past ~6 months we: got engage, planned a wedding, a wedding reception (2 different dates), honeymoon to Australia, a baby, a new house, and renting out our townhome. While slack is really a gussied up messaging platform, the extra polish they have on things like search, pins, and documents, made planning and executing on 3 of lifes major milestones significantly easier to manage. So fa…

Their search seems really unreliable to me. It doesn't find things that you can find by just scrolling up.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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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/

a great concept, anything like this in python?

Check out https://home-assistant.io similar but with some extra home automation focus.
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