VS Code Server example no longer works

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Since Oct 14, 2025.

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https://github.com/devcontainers/cli/blob/e47ebf9caf99f48ad28571c7e50e9a56eef01c55/example-usage/tool-vscode-server/server/init-vscode-server.sh#L4-L19

The links in the installer don't work anymore. If you run wget -q https://aka.ms/vscode-server-launcher/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, you will see that you have an HTML file instead of an executable.

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