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Re:Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy by voldacar on Saturday January 25, 2020 @07:55PM (#22149682)
>can for combinations of pixels indicating pornography

How could this possibly work in the era before convolutional neural networks?

Re:Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy by marcoseliziario on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:40AM (#22158747)
Heuristics. Amount of skin tones mostly. Of course, lots of false positives at that age, and some false negatives due to racial biases of the algorithm. It was crude, but kind of worked.