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Almost immediately after that post went live, German publisher Hans im Glück released solitaire rules for Carcassonne in German and English that you can download from its retail site Cundco.de. (Note: The product is listed as unavailable, but that's because you cannot purchase it. Scroll down to the "Available downloads:" section to find download links there.)
These rules are for use only with the base game, although the publisher encourages you to try whatever combinations of expansions you want, and it can't stop you from doing so anyway. The gist of the solitaire rules is that you'll play with three colors of meeples, with four meeples of each color. Divide the tiles into three piles, and place one pile by each color. You play for each color in turn, and if you can't place a meeple on a turn, the game ends immediately. Features can score for multiple colors if the color with the fewest points is one of the scoring colors, and at the end of the game your score is equal to the lowest-scoring color.
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In brief, one player is designated as the host and takes the role of both the first player and the third player, while everyone else takes the role of second player. The gist of the set-up, as far as I understand it, seems to be that the host is indeed hosting and not actually playing the game, but instead providing an AI of sorts for everyone else to play against.
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The twist of this roll-and-write is that the active player rolls three dice, reveals two of them for all players to use, then reveals the one die they hid, which players may or may not be able to use depending on what they thought the active player had rolled.
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Download the complete player sheet on BGG
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