Smiled as I read this, seeing as I'm on Slack largely due to my "extended family" from my previous job (everyone else left but we stayed in touch over Slack).
How we use Slack in our family
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#92They should have used IRC.
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#93Would this be doable with IRC?
Absolutely yes (aside from visuals).
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#94Did you look into Trello?
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#95I just moved into a house w/ a few room-mates, and we were looking to make a discord channel for the house and write some bots around home automation.
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#96Earlier 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.
It's Kerckhoffs's 2nd principle:
"[The system] should not require secrecy, and it should not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands"
Which gives rise to the idea of "security though obscurity" is bad. A system is said to rely on obscurity if the bad guy learning any facts about it (other than the special secret keys) represents a compromise.
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#98For those using Slack, I recommend you to check out this to-do app http://www.zlapps.com/todo
Disclaimer: I built it :)
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#99Right 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).
You have a very affordable paid option if you need paid features!
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#100Does anyone have a favorite "Shared Family Calendar"? We need something to keep track of everyone's school schedule, reports/projects due, sports games/practices, etc. etc. I've tried Google and Trello ... wondering if there's something better.
What does Google not do? In our family of 4 everyone has their own calendar and there are a couple of other shared ones that we can all see, and it works great.