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> Where do you see that?

Precisely where you've described; I've also seen "du" use it once, although it normally uses 1 KiB blocks (one of the very few things that I agree with rms on).

> 512-B sectors for hard drives and flash drives,

They've been using 4 KiB sectors since 2011; the 512-bytes sectors are emulated in the controller: [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format



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