[BRLTTY] location privilige on latest brltty apk for Android

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by henk.abma at gmail.com on 2020/09/26 at 17:31 +0200]

>Today I updated brltty and was asked by Android if I wanted to grant
>location access to brlTTY. Although I don't mind sharing my location, I was
>wondering what brltty needs it for.

It needs that permission to find out what your Wi-Fi session name is so that
the (new) global action - F15 or Space+Dots78+s - can tell you what it is. It's
brltty's way of giving you a quick look at the status indicators.

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