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It is referencing this bit at Cloudflare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg

And Cloudflare's lava lamps are an homage to SGI's 1996 Lavarand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

Actually I'd never seen that before. Using lava lamps to generate randomness predates Cloudflare by a few decades. :)

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