Oh, so something about the forum _did_ change on April 1st. It was confusing me, since that morning was when I noticed my preferred browser (Opera 12.15, the last version before it got Chrome-borged) suddenly stopped working with eevblog.
That something in the browser error log suggests that _somehow_ Opera auto-updates got turned back on (should be impossible), and it's April Fools day, made me think the change/fault was at my end. But it's too deep for my little net knowledge to figure out what was going wrong. Screenshot of how eevblog suddenly looks like, and the error log. I had no idea.
But yes, that Opera version is incapable of handling some forms of encryption. Firefox still works with eevblog, so I guess I'll have to use that instead of Opera from now on.
As for https, complete waste of time in my view. If you've been following the wiki and other leaks about CIA hacking utilities, you'd be aware the entire computing ecosystem is totally compromised, from the hardware (CPU backdoors) up through BIOS, all OSs, and the net backbone. There are toolkits for taking over any computer system at any time, via any kind of net connection. Not to mention Microsoft and Intel embedding deliberate State backdoors in their products. The latest vault 7 (part 3? I forget) CIA-tools release (Marble) includes utilities for making hacks look like they came from other entities than the CIA. And apparently the source code for all these tools has been out in the wild for ages.
I just give up on attempting security. Run an old OS, on old hardware, old browsers, with nothing interesting on the machine and no auto-updates (so at least it's stable.) Be an unattractive target.
Anyway, so you broke compatibility with my favorite browser. Oh well, can't be helped, but at least now I know what happened.