the c in xkcd stands for censored
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GNU Disk Destroyer
100
What is "someone is wrong on the internet"?
100
1st-century BC text by the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper Latin.
What is "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."?
100
ISO/IEC 27001
What is (an) information security (management system)?
100
What is Comic Sans MS?
100
read from FILE instead of stdin
what is if=FILE?
200
What is "Windows ME"?
200
1 January 1970
What is the Unix Epoch?
200
ECMA-262
What is JavaScript®?
(before Linus complains: What is the ECMAScript 2025 Language?)
200
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What is "HACK THE PLANET!" in Wingdings?
200
read and write up to BYTES bytes at a time (default: 512); over‐rides ibs and obs
what is bs=BYTES?
300
What is "4096-bit RSA"?
300
Located roughly 600 kilometres off the coast of West Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea
What is Null Island?
300
IETF RFC 1918
What is Address Allocation for Private Internets?
300
What is DIN 1451 (Engschrift and/or Mittelschrift)?
300
skip N obs-sized output blocks
what is seek=N?
400
What is "import antigravity"?
400
Informal name for the Unique Country Code (UCC) prefix allocated in the 1980s for European Article Number (EAN) identifiers of published books, regardless of country of origin
What is Bookland?
400
GSM 11.11
What is a SIM card? (more specifically: the specification of the Subscriber Identity Module - Mobile Equipment (SIM-ME) Interface)
400
Sending this signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
What is USR1?
500
What is silicate chemistry?
500
¤ (U+00A4)
What is the Unicode character used to denote an unspecified currency?
500
European Broadcasting Union R 128
What is loudness normalization?
500
What is EB Garamond?
500
suppresses the final transfer statistics
what is status=noxfer?