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VS Code axe Accessibility Linter fails to start

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Description

Product: axe Linter

Expectation: Linter extension starts

Actual:
* On first run errors popups "Unable to start axe-linter" and "Unable to download local-server" appear.
* After restarting VSCode the error popups change to "Unable to start axe-linter" and "Unable to start local-server".
* If I `chmod +x ~/.vscode/extensions/deque-systems.vscode-axe-linter-4.4.0/bin/axe-linter-server-4.4.0-macos` and restart VSCode I get a popup "axe Linter setup: Starting local-server" that never progresses/finishes
* running `./axe-linter-server-4.4.0-macos` directly in the terminal prints no output and gives an exit code 0
* investigating further `~/.vscode/extensions/deque-systems.vscode-axe-linter-4.4.0/bin/axe-linter-server-4.4.0-macos` is 0 bytes in size so that explains why nothing is happening



axe-linter version: 4.4.0
vscode about output:
Version: 1.67.2 (Universal)
Commit: c3511e6c69bb39013c4a4b7b9566ec1ca73fc4d5
Date: 2022-05-17T18:20:57.384Z (6 days ago)
Electron: 17.4.1
Chromium: 98.0.4758.141
Node.js: 16.13.0
V8: 9.8.177.13-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 21.3.0

For Tooling issues:
- Platform: macOS 12.2.1

I'm on a machine with corporate controls installed and behind a restrictive firewall and one of those facts is probably interfering with the extension working, but I'm not finding much information to go on to figure out what exactly is going wrong with the extension starting up or what local-server it's trying and failing to download.

Looking for some help to get this extension working so we can fix a11y issues earlier in the development cycle.

Screenshot of what I see right after I install the linter extension:
![Screen Shot 2022-05-23 at 2 13 00 PM](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/89602516/169883525-5255ce8f-a4e2-479f-a13f-b9347250110a.png)

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