alt Hacker NewsSure. I assume the ship has sailed already and I certainly won't die on that hill to change the meaning again, but still the word "kilo" literally means 1000 and it would have been more consistent to use it like this and for 1024 use a (slightly) different word.
In this context it's a unit prefix, not a standalone word. SI specifies a widely adopted system that defines and then uses a set of prefixes in a consistent manner. But we aren't forced to use SI everywhere without reason.