32 points
People were using them ambiguously so a real standard was made which is the kibibytes. Vendors and even OSes define KB differently, but KiB will always be base 2. It’s stupid yes, but making the original one base 10 was not deliberate.
7 points
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People weren’t using them ambiguously, drive manufactures picked a non-standard unit to lie with on their boxes, and then tricked courts into going along with their shit because it was the old case of money vs truth.
3 points
Maybe I used the wrong word. Interchangeably would be better?
And vendors merely abused the situation. The “kilo” had many people already using it incorrectly.
