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Don't forget that the remote editing feature in VSCode has you install non-free binaries on the remote machines. It's not like netdir where it just wraps openss

• pests 1y ago
  Corporate IT usually has a relationship and trusts Microsoft already. Not like it’s a small I trusted company.
• cozzyd 1y ago
  And responsible for a huge amount of disk usage on our experiments shared machines (due to a bunch of students using vscode, with each user having their own copies of magic binaries). I wonder if there's an easy way to block it...
• eddythompson80 1y ago
  No? The non-free binary is the client not the server. There are free implementations of the client for Code OSS. The server installed on the remote machine is part of vscode itself called the REH (remote extension host). It’s the core of the editor running in headless mode on the server. Here is an example open source implementation of the non-free binary client (it’s a 4 files that call various editor APIs) https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss This is REH entry (the binary installed on the remote machine) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/node https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/...