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This is amazing. I didn’t know about the lava lamps in San Francisco or the pendulums in London.

This is amazing. I didn’t know about the lava lamps in San Francisco or the pendulums in London. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/inside-the-london-office-where-swinging-pendulums-keep-cyber-threats-at-bay-71054/

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Keep in mind that it's mostly a fun art piece :-)  

Even back in the long long ago when people first started joking about lava lamps for randomness, it was shown that a video feed of a blank white wall was exactly as entropic. Practically speaking, once you get your first 100 bits of entropy, the rest is just for fun.

Did I miss something in the article or are you saying it's misleading? The article makes it sound like this actually has practical impact same as the lava lamps.

They are both art pieces that refer to an old cryptographer joke from long before Cloudflare was a thing. A lot of the articles about these pieces are written in more of a tongue-in-cheek way, but over the years some have had various levels of sincerity. I don't think this article explicitly spells out the joke.