Yes, the first one matches only 2 more characters while the second matches 1 or more. Also the +? is a lazy quantifier so it will consume as little as possible.

They did say they haven’t learned the ? operator (that’s chapter 9 of the rust book), so this approach might be better for once they get there.

You can use expect on Options and Results to extract the value and panic on Error in the same line (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/enum.Result.html#method.expect).

let html_content = reqwest::blocking::get(&permalink).expect("the request should succeed");

You can also use unwrap if you don’t need a custom message. The ? operator is definitely the most compact way of handling errors, and for good reason because the rust developers want people to use it. Once you learn that the code will become somewhat smaller.

I don’t think there was anything in the article indicating the privacy of WhatsApp was actually breached, they got info by reading WhatsApp messages from other people in the chat who had already been arrested and from Apple.

According to the article they did seize whatever they could.

What on earth is this video from; I’ve never seen it before.

Given that anyone can access the posts, I would say that anyone (AI companies) can access the posts.

Because that is the necessary condition for the primary attack people are worried about right now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later. We have plenty of information that could still be damaging if decrypted in 100 years.

What makes you think someone won’t manage to develop a performant large-scale quantum computer in the next hundred years? Just 90 years ago standard computers were still more or less electromechanical arithmetic machines.

Eh, various Linux DEs have what are essentially app stores because it makes the OS more accessible. I don’t think it’s inaccurate to say that many people are so technically illiterate that they do need someone to control their experience for them. I think that is an issue, but it doesn’t change the fact that it is the current state of things.

On the other hand, forcing users into using an app store (Apple) is bad, plenty of users are smart enough to control their own experience and some of us like customizing our OS and apps.