With the Beatles en de

Peter Jackson's documentary ‘Get Back’ anticipated what became impressively audible to everyone with the release of the Beatles' last single “Now and then”: with the help of artificial intelligence, quantum leaps in the processing of sound and language can be achieved today.

What is particularly impressive is that numerous tools based on these new technologies are accessible to everyone and can be used in practice - in many cases even free of charge. Services such as Whisper from OpenAI or the German platform DeepL can be used to create transcripts and translations, improve text quality and generate subtitles and summaries of longer texts. The Austrian provider Auphonic can be used to enhance poor audio tracks and automate previously complex processes with just a few lines of script code.

Using a practical example, I will show you how to use artificial intelligence and a few lines of PowerShell code to optimise the sound of existing video material.

- optimised in terms of sound: Adjust volume, remove noise, enhance the sound of the voice (levelling, normalisation, voice EQ, denoising)
- created a transcript of the spoken word
- a summary of the content is generated

In German, with English subtitels: Live from CIM Lingen 2024
thorsten-butz.de/cimlingen2024/

The "Sliding Windows" podcast live on stage en

"Sliding Windows" (https://www.slidingwindows.de) is the IT pro podcast hosted by Thorsten Butz, featuring guests with a distinct expertise and - a voice. Celebritites joined the show such as Bruce Payette, Jeffrey Snover and Steve Lee, to name just a few particularly well-known players in PowerShell history.

This year we will broadcast live on stage from the PSConfEU 2024 in Antwerp. Be surprised who will be my guest!

Broadcast yourself en

It's never been more important to be visible on social media and on the notable platforms, and it's rarely been so hard to keep up with ever-increasing quality standards and expectations.
Then you've given a great talk at an important conference and, of all things, your recording has failed yet again.

I started recording my own talks years ago, started my own podcast and I am taking care of the AV related matters of the PSConfEU today.

In this session, I will show how you can record your own presentations, lecutres and related topics with very simple means, edit them automatically and put them online with transcriptions and translations. Affordable and feasible for everyone. And of course with lots of demo material. It's time to broadcast yourselfs!

Live from the MCT Summit 2024 in Rijswijk/NL
https://vimeo.com/thorstenbutz/byourself

Slides and Notes:
https://github.com/thorstenbutz/conferences/tree/master/2024.MCTSummitNL
https://www.thorsten-butz.de/mctsummit2024/

about Epochs (a PeachaKucha) en

What do you think when you read the numbers 1, 1601 or 1970?
Have you ever thougth it would simplify your life if 2 seconds made a minute, 2 minutes made an hour and 2 hours made a day?
Time formats are one of the trickiest and most error-prone things in the life of a computer scientist. So it's no wonder that PowerShell and the operating systems on which it runs are full of turbulences and steep drop-offs.
Fancy some nerdy PowerShell knowledge at warp speed?

Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL en

Wikidata represents the underlying basement of Wikipedia, it's the collaboratively edited knowledge base filling up Wikipedia with data. Querying Wikidata enables you to gain access to to a universe of information, just in case you know how to answer the right questions.

This session provides an insight to wikidata/wikimedia queries by SPARQL, the semantic query language from W3C.

Live from the balkony/PSConfEU 2020:
Vimeo URL
https://vimeo.com/423297546
Youtube URL
https://youtu.be/b7erBmbaVR4

PS Enigma en

The Enigma is a myth. Used as a cipher device during World War, it was strongly belived that the use of the Enigma machine enabled NAZI Germany to communicate securely. The Enigma is also closely connected with the history of information technology: Alan Turing, who cracked the Enigma's encryption, was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science.

How hard will it be to rebuild the encryption of the Enigma in PowerShell? Can we still learn something about cryptography from this - I bet so!

Live from Prague/PSConfEU 2023:
https://vimeo.com/843587626

PSEnigma is a powershell implementation of the cipher device that was used during WW II and cracked by the british intelligence in Bletchley Park.

Chasing the seconds 2.0: Functions done right en

The processing of quantities (arrays, lists, collections ..) is in the DNA of the powershell. But many CmdLets only support the processing of arrays very poorly.

Are you aware of how to handle begin/process/end blocks properly? How do you build a script that supports pipelining as well as the direct passing of arrays without waisting time?
And what about remoting - PSSession, CIMSessions etc?

Øyvind Kallstad gave a presentation worth seeing at an earlier PSConf. This is as much a tribute as a follow-up.

Live from Vienna/PSConfEU 2022:
https://vimeo.com/732187919/d1ada65883

With the Beatles en de

Peter Jacksons Dokumentation "Get Back" nahm vorweg, was mit der Veröffentlichung der letzten Beatles-Single "Now and then" für jeden eindrucksvoll hörbar wurde: mit Hilfe künstlicher Intelligenz lassen sich heute Quantensprünge in der Verarbeitung von Ton und Sprache erzielen.

Besonders beeindruckend ist, dass zahlreiche Werkzeuge, die auf diesen neuen Technologien basieren, jedem zugänglich und ganz praktisch anwendbar sind - in vielen Fällen sogar kostenfrei. Mit Diensten wie Whisper von OpenAI oder der deutschen Plattform DeepL, lassen sich Transkripte und Übersetzungen erstellen, die Textqualität verbessern, Untertitel und Zusammenfassungen von längeren Texten erzeugen. Mit dem Anbieter Auphonic aus Österreich lassen sich mangelhafte Audiospuren aufwerten und vormals komplexe Prozesse mit Hilfe weniger Zeilen Scriptcode automatisieren.

Ich zeige am praktischen Beispiel, wie man mit Hilfe künstlicher Intelligenz und wenigen Zeilen PowerShell-Code vorhandenes Videomaterial

- klanglich optimiert: Lautstärke anpassen, Rauschen entfernen, Klang der Stimme aufwerten
(Levelling, Normalization, Voice-EQ, Denoising)
- eine Mitschrift des gesprochenen Wortes erstellt
- eine Zusammenfassung der Inhalte generiert

Live von der CIM Lingen 2024: Video, Notizen, und vieles mehr
https://thorsten-butz.de/cimlingen2024/

Eine Paketverwaltung für Windows (Eine Geschichte voller Missverständnisse) de

Mit der AppInstaller CLI (aka WinGet) hat Microsoft die Tor zu einer Paketverwaltung für Windows aufgestoßen. Schon der eigentümliche Name scheint ein Signal zu sein, wie schwer sich Microsoft tut, seine Plattform für eine zeitgerechte Form der Softwareverwaltung neu aufzustellen. Und über der Frage des Paketmanagements schwebt die noch grundsätzlichere Frage des Paketformats: MSIX und artverwandte "modern apps" tun sich schwer, die angestaubten Klassiker wie MSI vom Thron zu stoßen.

Wir lernen mit Scott Hanselman, Keivan Beigi und Demitrius Nelon die Protagonisten eines langjährigen Feldversuchs kennen, fremde Welten zu entdecken, neue Formate und neue Plattformen zu etablieren und Wege zu beschreiten, die nie ein Admin mitgegangen ist.

Andreas Nick und Thorsten Butz werfen einen launigen Insider-Blick auf Microsofts Ringen um eine Paketverwaltung und deren langen Weg vom Nano-Server (!) über Argument Completer hin zu nativen PowerShell-Cmdlets.

Live vom PSSat 2023 in Hannover:
https://vimeo.com/thorstenbutz/pssat2023

Folien und Co:
https://www.thorsten-butz.de/pssat2023/