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Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes (waspdev.com)
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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It's less for the consumer and more of an SI/IEC/BIPM thing. If the prefix k means about 1000 depending on the context, that can cause all sorts of problems. They maintain that k means strictly 1000, for good reason.