Employee Of The Month: Lava Lamp Edition

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Employee Of The Month: Lava Lamp Edition

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The peak of cryptographic security: using a wall of lava lamps as entropy source! The first panel shows a dev asking for a random number generator. The second panel proudly displays Cloudflare's actual wall of lava lamps that captures unpredictable fluid motion to generate truly random numbers. Meanwhile, the other devs are utterly unimpressed because... well, they probably expected Math.random() like normal humans. Little do they know this bizarre contraption is actually genius-level randomness engineering that powers internet security for millions of websites. Cryptography's greatest flex disguised as retro office decor.

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