hubbub

hubbub is a frightening idea: Voice-over-IRC-over-SSH. i saw voirc by asie before making this, but hubbub is different in a couple of ways:

it doesn't plop you in a big alternate screen
it does not support text
it has deafen and mute indicators
crucially, it is built for tilde town, so it tunnels through ssh.

the code is about as horrifying as the idea itself. if something breaks when it reasonably shouldn't, let me know (or fix it and then let me know!)

todo

joining a channel
handling everyone's state
any of the actual audio stuff
noise suppression with rnnoise
chat with more than a singular other person, probably

building

hubbub requires go 1.23 to build. it might run on earlier versions, but i think slices mainlined in 1.23 and i can't be bothered to check. run go build and copy the binary wherever.

you also need to have the following headers:

rnnoise
portaudio
opus

usage

hubbub needs a TOML config file, either passed using --config or at .config/hubbub/config.toml:

username = 'shrike420'
privkey = '~/.ssh/id_ed25519'
nick = 'shrike420_voice'
channel = '#hubbub'

note that the nick is different than the username: if you're already logged onto irc you won't be able to use that nick. you can also pass a different server or port but you really don't have a reason to.

for audio, this uses portaudio, so as long as you have it installed and you have either pipewire or alsa or jack or pulseaudio, it'll work. JACK might spit out some ugly stuff to stderr on launch, i'm working on fixing that.

here's the controls:

,/m/space   toggle mute
./d         toggle deafen
q/^c/^d     quit :(

license

this monstrosity is licensed under the Dayenu Public License. see the notice for details.