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I'm sure you were joking but they actually are: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...


Despite them actually mixing it into their entropy pools, the lava lamps are still entirely for show. The noise of the camera sensor itself is going to contribute orders of magnitude more entropy than the slow movement of the lamps. It's not completely a fake stunt, but it's certainly headline-optimized.


Someone needs to get these lava lamps plugged back in ASAP!




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